Over the last couple years I've had to deal with hard drive
problems....one due to static electricity and one due to chkdsk deleting
partitions or something. Any way I thought it would be a good idea to have
two identical hard drives....then if one had a problem I would simply
replace the bad with the good.
I installed 2 Genica removable trays and 2 HD's. One as the master and the
other as a USB backup drive. I now back up everything backupable daily. I
also tried some clone software and use this weekly.
The problem is that when I tried to interchange the drives I received
error messages to install a boot up disk. Apparently XP doesn't like the
cloned drive. Is it the clone software?.......if so which one will
work........or is it XP?
Thank you,
Dave
What cloning software did you use? I also use Genica removable trays and
routinely clone my hard drive, I also run off the clone to insure it
functions. I use Ghost 2003.
Re: Backing up the system ... IDE disks mounted in a removable trays, and each clone is bootable. ... When you clone the contents of your working drive to the destination drive (bearing in mind we're talking about removable internal drives in their mobile racks), the destination drive, being for all practical purposes an exact duplicate of the source drive, is bootable and there's no need to edit its boot.ini file. ... the context of archiving several bootable partitions on the same backup drive. ... one must be aware which of the multiple system partitions on a drive has been marked "active". ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Cloning my hard drive? ... And obviously the two tasks, clone vs. image, are close enough to argue about. ... I say that because the only reason I am making the backup is for when something goes awry on the internal source drive, and I need to restore the internal source drive from the external backup drive. ... comprehensive backup system of one's day-to-day working HDD.... I'm not swapping any drives here. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: Cloned my HD successfully but the 2nd. attempt was a failure ... UNABLE TO CLONE THE CONTENTS OF ONE HD TO ANOTHER HD. ... NOT CLEAR WHETHER THE SAMSUNG HD IS DEFECTIVE AND THAT'S WHAT CAUSING THE ... Since you have the Ghost 2003 program available to you, ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Question about backups with Ghost ... supply dying and frying both drives at once. ... this clone to the system, but I've never had a problem. ... its crucial to not allow it to see the original for the first boot... of the clone and the reboot of that clone which it will ask for. ... (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
Re: Backing up the system ... >>> IDE disks mounted in a removable trays, and each clone is bootable. ... > and the system partition selection menu to choose ... > clk Disk Management.)...drives and the disk cloning process. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
