Re: HD file transfer question (using Norton Ghost to migrate the C
- From: Oguchi <Oguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:26:02 -0700
Watch out: before you pop the champagne, try Office 2007 to make sure it
works fine.
I have pasted below my experience on this from a similar question (I need
help and recommendations!):...
Definitely Micrososft Office problem. I migrated to a new hard disk using
Acronis Easy Migration (disc imaging technique). After the procedure, every
other program, including
Internet Explore 7 workd fine. Except for the Office 2007 suite.
1) Outlook 2007 icon disappeared. Running it from Programs got as far as
starting program and going down one more level deeper. Anything else gave the
error of "Not supported"
2) Word was kinder: it would start the Installer when you to open it;
sputter a bit, give an error message, but would nevertheless open for you and
allow you to use it.
3) Using the Control panel to get to Office and try to repair failed: it
could not run setup.
4) Running setup so you can repair from original disk also failed--I have
never seen setup fail to run from the origianl disk
5) Uninstall from Control Panel panel also failed.
Just to be sure, I used the utility software from the new disk to do my
migration over again (disc-copying technique). The same problem occurred
with Office.
I have to conclude there is an OFFICE problem when it comes to migration.
BTW: Running Office Diagnostics failed to reveal any problem at all in all
the
parameters.
I am running WIN XP Professional
"raylopez99" wrote:
On Jul 10, 10:34 am, raylopez99 <raylope...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:.
Just to complete this thread for future generations, I've just tried
Seagate's DiscWizard and with a new Seagate HD on the USB connection,
the DiscWizard identifies it, sets up the 'clone' correctly (ie. copy
C to the new HD), but upon reboot there's a reading error and it
fails. Perhaps this is due to a virus or firewall program running
resident, though I thought I corrected for this. In any event, I'm
going to go to plan B which is to attach the new HD in the "D" bay,
and use Ghost 2002 to copy "disk to disk" (clone) as Brian points out.
I finally migrated the new C: drive. What I ended up doing is using
the "disk to disk" feature of Norton Ghost, using the power supply and
data interface cable from the old D: drive (I have two drives), as
suggested in this thread. It worked fine. The funny thing is: the
new HD from Seagate was formatted as FATS (I mistakenly formatted it
as FATS prior to mounting it), while the old C: drive I was cloning
was NTFS, yet, when I did the "disk to disk" cloning (from inside of
Norton Ghost), and when I booted up, the new C: drive was formatted
entirely in NTFS! I was expecting an error and I was expecting to
have to reformat the new drive in NTFS. But Windows XP apparently was
smart enough, after booting up, to recognize the rest of the new drive
(i.e., the rest of the drive not taken up by the NTFS image file) was
FATS and automatically formatted it as NTFS. Then on the reboot the
entire new C: drive was NTFS.
Also the new Seagate drive came with instructions and a utility* on
disk migration, along with interface cables. I am confident their
solution would also have worked to migrate the data (*it's basically a
crippled version of Acronis software).
All in all disk migration when you are cloning the C: drive is not
trivial, but not hard either if you do your homework.
RL
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