ghosting my original dell drive

You should only use CopyWipe for Windows from a WinPE CD. Not from Windows
as the OS is not locked. It's easier to use CopyWipe for DOS and you will
need the "Scale Size" option if you want your partitions to fill the new HD.

I assume you are using WinXP.

On Apr 21, 7:02*am, "Brian K" wrote:
You should only use CopyWipe for Windows from a WinPE CD. Not from Windows
as the OS is not locked. It's easier to use CopyWipe for DOS and you will
need the "Scale Size" option if you want your partitions to fill the new HD.

I assume you are using WinXP.

Yes. And I did encounter the "OS not locked" msg.

I also tried acronis free trial, recommended by a friend. It forces
you to reboot and gives itself full control upon restart. It too
encountered a disk error on the source drive. I told it to ignore all
errors and went to sleep. When I woke up and tried to boot from the
cloned drive (still in the usb adapter) I got further as the windows
splash screen deigned to make an appearance but then I got the BSOD. I
tried again, same result.

So tonight I'm going to try to see what's the problem with my source
disk and hopefully it can be fixed.

"yirg.kenya" wrote in message
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When I woke up and tried to boot from the
cloned drive (still in the usb adapter) I got further as the windows
splash screen deigned to make an appearance but then I got the BSOD. I
tried again, same result.


Unless you are prepared to do extensive editing of the registry it is
"impossible" to boot a WinXP OS from a USB HD. Install it internally as HD0.

On Apr 21, 9:33*pm, "Brian K" wrote:
"yirg.kenya" wrote in message

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When I woke up and tried to boot from the
cloned drive (still in the usb adapter) I got further as the windows
splash screen deigned to make an appearance but then I got the BSOD. I
tried again, same result.

Unless you are prepared to do extensive editing of the registry it is
"impossible" to boot a WinXP OS from a USB HD. Install it internally as HD0.

Thanks!!! Came up right away. Only thing so far is that on winXP
startup it reports: RUNDLL: Error loading CMTBHA.DLL. A dynamic link
library (DLL) initialization routine failed.

If the error persists I'd clone again. But this time with CopyWipe for DOS.
Ideally (and I suggest you do this) you should have the new HD installed
internally and the old (original) HD in the USB enclosure. This way the new
HD is seen in its correct geometry at the time of the clone. Make sure you
use the F6 option in CopyWipe to identify each HD. You don't want to clone
in the wrong direction. I'm sure your cloned HD will be fine. Use the "Scale
Size" option.

Make sure you disconnect the old HD before the first boot from the new HD.
After the first boot the old HD can be reconnected.

On Apr 22, 3:33*am, "Brian K" wrote:
If the error persists I'd clone again. But this time with CopyWipe for DOS.
Ideally (and I suggest you do this) you should have the new HD installed
internally and the old (original) HD in the USB enclosure. This way the new
HD is seen in its correct geometry at the time of the clone. Make sure you
use the F6 option in CopyWipe to identify each HD. You don't want to clone
in the wrong direction. I'm sure your cloned HD will be fine. Use the "Scale
Size" option.

Looking around I discovered that other people who had cloned (and at
least one with acronis) had received the same error msg re this DLL. I
just unchecked it the msconfig start tab.

There has been one other weirdness so far: efax didn't come up right.
(I use their free fax receiving program.) So I reinstalled it and it
worked fine. I'll report any problems of consequence.