Re: How to make a cloned disk boot?
- From: Bo Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:54:12 +0100
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:23:13 +0100, Bo Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
The plot thickens.....
Today I got one of trhe Compaq nc8000 laptops done using Ghost 2003:
- Partition to 60gb in a USB shell
- Ghost from on-board disk to USB disk partition
- This did not work, though...
- Now put new disk in laptop and old disk in USB shell
- Boot up Ghost 2003 from a boot CD with USB2 drivers
- Ghost from external USB disk to local (new) drive partition
- After finish, disconnect USB and reboot
- Works! XP-Pro starts up like it should.
So now we have 2 out of 4 upgraded.
Now I tried to repeat a similar procedure on the other laptop (we have
3 identical units):
- Drive in USB shell, create 60 Gb partition and format to NTFS
(no need to do a failed Ghost transfer I thought)
- Set partition active, no drive letter
- Put new drive into laptop, old drive in USB2 shell
- Boot up with the same Ghost CD
- Never get to the Ghost screen, stops before mouse driver load...
- Attach USB floppy drive with Ghost boot floppy (src of the boot CD)
- Boot from floppy
- Now get to Ghost screen and select 'local partition from partition'
- Both disks are now shown but only the *new* drive is selectable as
source! the old drive is shown but disabled!
- Same if I choose local partition to image. G-2003 seems to want to
kill my old drive since it cannot be selected as the source.
So finally we gave up and downloaded Acronis TrueImage Home, installed
it on the laptop (old drive back inside the laptop) and started it.
Selected making a drive data transfer to the new drive, which by now
was in the USB2 shell and hooked up. I had also cleaned out all data
so far put on the drive using the Seagate disk tools so the drive was
now virgin.
TrueImage detected that the transfer was to be done from internal to
external drive and that it would expand the size from 38 Gb to 148 Gb.
When it was started it rebooted WinXP into a DOS-like transfer program
that connected to the USB2 drive and started to transfer data.
So far so good, but incredibly slow!
But where Ghost 2003 could transfer at speeds up to 400-500 Mb/min for
a total transfer time of about 1:25 hours True Image was MUCH slower,
it had not finished when I left work today, but from our timing it
looks like it will need 4-5 hours to copy the same amount of data!!!
So one single cloning of 37 Gb data takes 3-4 times as long with TI as
compared to Ghost 2003....
Let's hope that it works at least...
Why is it such a hassle to go from a drive to another?
Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com
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