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"jimbo" wrote in message ... Well, the next thing I will try when I get back to my desktop is to do the fdisk /mbr from Win98. If you do this, pick up the latest version (bundled with ME, I think) from http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm. It handles big drives whereas earlier versions may not. When you return, try leaving the HD's in their original positions and remove a CD-ROM to position the new drive for cloning. I don't see a reason to swap drive positions around like you've been doing, and setting drives to "cable select" should eliminate the need to worry about jumpers. That new drive should clone perfectly and be asfunctional as your original D: drive is. I've cloned almost every type of drive without problems, but never on a dual-boot system, which is what has me (and everyone else) perplexed. You might drop a message to the forum on the Symantec site, but I don't know how responsive the Symantec techs will be. |
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Peter wrote:
In article , says... Peter wrote: In article , says... On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:55:05 -0700, jimbo wrote: I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard drive. (I set the new drive's jumper to "master" the same as the "C" drive.) Then Norton Ghost was booted from floppies and I cloned drive 2 to drive 1. This all seemed to OK. Then I disconnected the new drive and changed the jumper to "slave". Then I reconnected the "C" drive. Then I disconnected the "D" drive and connected the new drive in it's place. Now when I boot to WinXP it fails just after the WinXP splash screen. A blue screen with an error message appears and the system reboots. Any insight will be appreciated. jimbo I think XP looks for boot image on the C drive and that is looking for the old D drive not the new drive. Why wouldn't that 'boot image' not be looking for the new D drive. What makes you think the new drive is 'D'? Because it's the only other HD on the system. But it's partitions and logical drives inside of partitions that get assigned letters, not 'hard drives'. At least that's how it works with my setup. I have 2 HD's on the primary IDE and set to cable select, allowing me to boot from either IDE. When I boot from one the other becomes drive D and vice versa. That would depend on the operating system and how it assigns drive letters. Windows 98 assigns them as it loads but XP does not. Once XP has installed the drive, assigned it a GUID and identified the partitions, swapping them around will make no difference (to the letter assignment, that is), unless you wipe out the GUID forcing it to redetect them (or edit the registry). XP's PnP ordering is also different. While not common it isn't unheard of for XP to call a drive on the secondary IDE port 'C' and a drive on the primary IDE port 'D', the reverse of what Windows98 would do. (not applicable in this case as he indicated both were on the primary port, but it's an example of how Windows98 assumptions don't necessarily apply to XP) Now, perhaps XP can mess things up when assigning drive letters, but seeing as the original cloning process was done from boot floppies then I can't see how this could possibly happen. Under 'normal' circumstances that would probably be a good guess since we would naturally assume everything else is pretty much 'the same' as when the old drives were originally installed so we presume the new drive would replicate a similar detection process. However, since it didn't work there must be something else going on. And with that knowledge it raises questions about what else might have happened, or changed. For example, while he didn't mention doing so, if he installed the new drive, and booted XP, to 'check it out' before doing the clone then XP is aware of the drive and subsequent cloning would copy that awareness, and perhaps cause the drive letters to not get assigned as expected. Or perhaps there is something odd about the partition information on the old drives. Something that's, for some unknown reason, changed from when they were originally installed so that partition letter assignments don't work the same as the original, before they changed, drives when the new drive is redetected. |
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jimbo wrote:
Just the word "bad" after the drive 2 header and no partition information. And yes, Partition Magic can and was used to create an NTFS partition. When the new drive is placed in the external USB enclosure, Windows Explorer could see it OK. It just wouldn't boot to WinXP when it was placed in the old WinXP HD. jimbo No error number? That's odd! It's been awhile since I've used Magic, and it's been even longer since I've actually seen it give a complaint, but I think that it still lets you check the drive's configuration for errors. It should be an option somewhere under the Tools menu. Otherwise, I'll have to use fdisk to wipe the partitions off the new drive and try again as it should have no problems examining a blank drive. |
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jimbo wrote:
I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard drive. (I set the new drive's jumper to "master" the same as the "C" drive.) Then Norton Ghost was booted from floppies and I cloned drive 2 to drive 1. This all seemed to OK. Then I disconnected the new drive and changed the jumper to "slave". Then I reconnected the "C" drive. Then I disconnected the "D" drive and connected the new drive in it's place. Now when I boot to WinXP it fails just after the WinXP splash screen. A blue screen with an error message appears and the system reboots. Any insight will be appreciated. jimbo OK, here is the last chapter. Things got much worse, couldn't boot at all after an aborted atempt at a repair installation. I finally decided to punt and do a new installation. I never use Win98, so I decided to just do a new WinXP install on "C". First, I copied all files on "C" to the new hard drive. Then I changed all jumpers to cable select and installed the old "C" drive to the master position, with nothing in slave position. I used a Win98 boot floppy to delete all partitions, then created one new partition. The new WinXP installation stalled while searching for devices. So, I basically gutted my case, one hard drive, one DVD drive, video card, mouse and keyboard was all that was left. WinXP installed without a problem. Then I copied old files to the current WinXP partition and to the new hard drive which I placed in the slave position. Finally I had a new WinXP installation on one of my old 40 GB hard drives (master) and all of the old files from my old "C" and "D" drives on the new 200 GB hard drive (slave). Then I reinstalled hardware and software step by step until I am almost back to where I want to be with a new 200 GB hard drive as slave and an old 40 GB hard drive as master. Just a few comments. I think Norton Ghost caused most of my problems. I also think there was some basic problem with my original installation. Even though everything appeared to work perfectly, something, somewhere was not right. And throughout all of the hard drive swapping that I did while getting all of my files saved on the new hard drive, WinXP always assigned correct drive letters, etc. No confusion about what drive was where. So I think my original procedure was OK, just a glitch with Ghost and the original installation. And with 99% of my programs reinstalled, the system is much more responsive and seems much faster than before this ordeal. So, even though it was more work than I wanted the results are worth the effort. Thanks to all who help me through this task. jimbo |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:10:47 -0700, jimbo wrote:
jimbo wrote: I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard drive. (I set the new drive's jumper to "master" the same as the "C" drive.) Then Norton Ghost was booted from floppies and I cloned drive 2 to drive 1. This all seemed to OK. Then I disconnected the new drive and changed the jumper to "slave". Then I reconnected the "C" drive. Then I disconnected the "D" drive and connected the new drive in it's place. Now when I boot to WinXP it fails just after the WinXP splash screen. A blue screen with an error message appears and the system reboots. Any insight will be appreciated. jimbo OK, here is the last chapter. Things got much worse, couldn't boot at all after an aborted atempt at a repair installation. I finally decided to punt and do a new installation. I never use Win98, so I decided to just do a new WinXP install on "C". First, I copied all files on "C" to the new hard drive. Then I changed all jumpers to cable select and installed the old "C" drive to the master position, with nothing in slave position. I used a Win98 boot floppy to delete all partitions, then created one new partition. The new WinXP installation stalled while searching for devices. So, I basically gutted my case, one hard drive, one DVD drive, video card, mouse and keyboard was all that was left. WinXP installed without a problem. Then I copied old files to the current WinXP partition and to the new hard drive which I placed in the slave position. Finally I had a new WinXP installation on one of my old 40 GB hard drives (master) and all of the old files from my old "C" and "D" drives on the new 200 GB hard drive (slave). Then I reinstalled hardware and software step by step until I am almost back to where I want to be with a new 200 GB hard drive as slave and an old 40 GB hard drive as master. Just a few comments. I think Norton Ghost caused most of my problems. I also think there was some basic problem with my original installation. Even though everything appeared to work perfectly, something, somewhere was not right. And throughout all of the hard drive swapping that I did while getting all of my files saved on the new hard drive, WinXP always assigned correct drive letters, etc. No confusion about what drive was where. So I think my original procedure was OK, just a glitch with Ghost and the original installation. And with 99% of my programs reinstalled, the system is much more responsive and seems much faster than before this ordeal. So, even though it was more work than I wanted the results are worth the effort. Thanks to all who help me through this task. jimbo For what it's worth, maybe the problem with Ghost was you moved the D to C used the new drive as D for the clone. Maybe you should have added new drive as E then cloned D to E. IMHO your final solution is right except I would have made the new drive the C instead of D since you've removed Win98. I used the vendor utility to clone drives and it hasn't failed to clone a drive yet. |
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jaster wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:10:47 -0700, jimbo wrote: jimbo wrote: I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard drive. (I set the new drive's jumper to "master" the same as the "C" drive.) Then Norton Ghost was booted from floppies and I cloned drive 2 to drive 1. This all seemed to OK. Then I disconnected the new drive and changed the jumper to "slave". Then I reconnected the "C" drive. Then I disconnected the "D" drive and connected the new drive in it's place. Now when I boot to WinXP it fails just after the WinXP splash screen. A blue screen with an error message appears and the system reboots. Any insight will be appreciated. jimbo OK, here is the last chapter. Things got much worse, couldn't boot at all after an aborted atempt at a repair installation. I finally decided to punt and do a new installation. I never use Win98, so I decided to just do a new WinXP install on "C". First, I copied all files on "C" to the new hard drive. Then I changed all jumpers to cable select and installed the old "C" drive to the master position, with nothing in slave position. I used a Win98 boot floppy to delete all partitions, then created one new partition. The new WinXP installation stalled while searching for devices. So, I basically gutted my case, one hard drive, one DVD drive, video card, mouse and keyboard was all that was left. WinXP installed without a problem. Then I copied old files to the current WinXP partition and to the new hard drive which I placed in the slave position. Finally I had a new WinXP installation on one of my old 40 GB hard drives (master) and all of the old files from my old "C" and "D" drives on the new 200 GB hard drive (slave). Then I reinstalled hardware and software step by step until I am almost back to where I want to be with a new 200 GB hard drive as slave and an old 40 GB hard drive as master. Just a few comments. I think Norton Ghost caused most of my problems. I also think there was some basic problem with my original installation. Even though everything appeared to work perfectly, something, somewhere was not right. And throughout all of the hard drive swapping that I did while getting all of my files saved on the new hard drive, WinXP always assigned correct drive letters, etc. No confusion about what drive was where. So I think my original procedure was OK, just a glitch with Ghost and the original installation. And with 99% of my programs reinstalled, the system is much more responsive and seems much faster than before this ordeal. So, even though it was more work than I wanted the results are worth the effort. Thanks to all who help me through this task. jimbo For what it's worth, maybe the problem with Ghost was you moved the D to C used the new drive as D for the clone. Maybe you should have added new drive as E then cloned D to E. IMHO your final solution is right except I would have made the new drive the C instead of D since you've removed Win98. I used the vendor utility to clone drives and it hasn't failed to clone a drive yet. Well, I made "C" my boot drive for WinXP. The new drive will be used for data, backups, etc. In getting to where I am now, I swapped drives several times to get everything copied, verified, etc. Every time I did a swap, WinXP recognized the new drive properly and assigned a drive letter appropriate for it's position. So, I think it doesn't matter where the drive is when it is cloned, but the final location is important. For example if I clone a "C" drive, it doesn't matter where it is during the cloning, but it then must be used in a "C" position. Just my thoughts. I am going to try the Western Digital utility to copy my "C" drive to my spare 40 GB hard drive. In theory, I should then be able to swap it out for my current "C" drive and boot to a system that is the same as I now boot to. jimbo |
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:53:56 -0700, jimbo wrote:
jaster wrote: [snip] For what it's worth, maybe the problem with Ghost was you moved the D to C used the new drive as D for the clone. Maybe you should have added new drive as E then cloned D to E. IMHO your final solution is right except I would have made the new drive the C instead of D since you've removed Win98. I used the vendor utility to clone drives and it hasn't failed to clone a drive yet. Well, I made "C" my boot drive for WinXP. The new drive will be used for data, backups, etc. In getting to where I am now, I swapped drives several times to get everything copied, verified, etc. Every time I did a swap, WinXP recognized the new drive properly and assigned a drive letter appropriate for it's position. So, I think it doesn't matter where the drive is when it is cloned, but the final location is important. For example if I clone a "C" drive, it doesn't matter where it is during the cloning, but it then must be used in a "C" position. Just my thoughts. I am going to try the Western Digital utility to copy my "C" drive to my spare 40 GB hard drive. In theory, I should then be able to swap it out for my current "C" drive and boot to a system that is the same as I now boot to. jimbo Yes good luck. What I meant was maybe Ghost looked at the new drive as "THE C:" drive and set up WinXP programs to the new drive instead of to the Win98 C:\. |
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jaster wrote:
Yes good luck. What I meant was maybe Ghost looked at the new drive as "THE C:" drive and set up WinXP programs to the new drive instead of to the Win98 C:\. I don't think that Ghost or any other cloning utility will alter any of the data from the original drive unless you tell it to. |
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jimbo wrote:
jaster wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:10:47 -0700, jimbo wrote: jimbo wrote: I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard drive. (I set the new drive's jumper to "master" the same as the "C" drive.) Then Norton Ghost was booted from floppies and I cloned drive 2 to drive 1. This all seemed to OK. Then I disconnected the new drive and changed the jumper to "slave". Then I reconnected the "C" drive. Then I disconnected the "D" drive and connected the new drive in it's place. Now when I boot to WinXP it fails just after the WinXP splash screen. A blue screen with an error message appears and the system reboots. Any insight will be appreciated. jimbo OK, here is the last chapter. Things got much worse, couldn't boot at all after an aborted atempt at a repair installation. I finally decided to punt and do a new installation. I never use Win98, so I decided to just do a new WinXP install on "C". First, I copied all files on "C" to the new hard drive. Then I changed all jumpers to cable select and installed the old "C" drive to the master position, with nothing in slave position. I used a Win98 boot floppy to delete all partitions, then created one new partition. The new WinXP installation stalled while searching for devices. So, I basically gutted my case, one hard drive, one DVD drive, video card, mouse and keyboard was all that was left. WinXP installed without a problem. Then I copied old files to the current WinXP partition and to the new hard drive which I placed in the slave position. Finally I had a new WinXP installation on one of my old 40 GB hard drives (master) and all of the old files from my old "C" and "D" drives on the new 200 GB hard drive (slave). Then I reinstalled hardware and software step by step until I am almost back to where I want to be with a new 200 GB hard drive as slave and an old 40 GB hard drive as master. Just a few comments. I think Norton Ghost caused most of my problems. I also think there was some basic problem with my original installation. Even though everything appeared to work perfectly, something, somewhere was not right. And throughout all of the hard drive swapping that I did while getting all of my files saved on the new hard drive, WinXP always assigned correct drive letters, etc. No confusion about what drive was where. So I think my original procedure was OK, just a glitch with Ghost and the original installation. And with 99% of my programs reinstalled, the system is much more responsive and seems much faster than before this ordeal. So, even though it was more work than I wanted the results are worth the effort. Thanks to all who help me through this task. jimbo For what it's worth, maybe the problem with Ghost was you moved the D to C used the new drive as D for the clone. Maybe you should have added new drive as E then cloned D to E. IMHO your final solution is right except I would have made the new drive the C instead of D since you've removed Win98. I used the vendor utility to clone drives and it hasn't failed to clone a drive yet. Well, I made "C" my boot drive for WinXP. The new drive will be used for data, backups, etc. In getting to where I am now, I swapped drives several times to get everything copied, verified, etc. Every time I did a swap, WinXP recognized the new drive properly and assigned a drive letter appropriate for it's position. So, I think it doesn't matter where the drive is when it is cloned, but the final location is important. For example if I clone a "C" drive, it doesn't matter where it is during the cloning, but it then must be used in a "C" position. Just my thoughts. I am going to try the Western Digital utility to copy my "C" drive to my spare 40 GB hard drive. In theory, I should then be able to swap it out for my current "C" drive and boot to a system that is the same as I now boot to. jimbo This getting to be a disaster! I used the Western Digital Data Guard utility to clone my "C" drive to the old, now spare hard drive using the DOS floppy option. It took 3 hours to complete! And when I booted to WinXP, Windows Explorer reported the drive as un-formatted! Partition Magic showed a drive with file type 7, not NTFS. Needless to say it won't boot. What am I doing wrong???? What other software could I use to make a clone of my "C" drive that will boot? jimbo |
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