Ghosting Question

10 Feb 2005 2:47 PM

Wayne Morgan

I bought a new laptop hard drive. I pulled the old drive from the laptop and
connected it to a USB/IDE connector to my desktop computer. I then used
Norton Ghost to make an image of the drive. Once this was done, I connected
the new drive using the USB connector and restored the image to the new
drive, telling Ghost to make the drive a Primary partition and Active. I
placed the new drive in my laptop and it will boot to the logon screen. When
I logon, as soon as it is done logging on, it logs right back off again. It
doesn't shut down, just logs off to the "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del" screen.

Ideas?

WinXP Pro SP2.

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Wayne Morgan

10 Feb 2005 3:39 PM

Zotin Khuma

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"Wayne Morgan" <comprev_gothroughthenewsgr***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I bought a new laptop hard drive. I pulled the old drive from the laptop
and
> connected it to a USB/IDE connector to my desktop computer. I then used
> Norton Ghost to make an image of the drive. Once this was done, I
connected
> the new drive using the USB connector and restored the image to the new
> drive, telling Ghost to make the drive a Primary partition and Active. I
> placed the new drive in my laptop and it will boot to the logon screen.
When
> I logon, as soon as it is done logging on, it logs right back off again.
It
> doesn't shut down, just logs off to the "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del" screen.
>
> Ideas?
>
> WinXP Pro SP2.
>
> --
> Wayne Morgan
>

I've found that when restoring from a Ghost image, Win XP is
very particular that the new partition that the image is restored
to is not smaller than the original partition. A smaller partition
leads to boot-up problems like the one you described. No
problem with Win9x, and XP doesn't seem to mind if the
new partition is larger than the old one.

However, I've been using only the cut-down OEM version
of Ghost, and I usually Ghost only individual partitions and
not whole drives.

10 Feb 2005 3:55 PM

Wayne Morgan

In this case, that probably doesn't help. The new drive is larger.

I saw in the help file that there is an Advanced Option to restore the
original disk's signature as well, but that doing so requires using booting
to the recovery disk. I may give that a try to see if it helps.

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Wayne Morgan

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"Zotin Khuma" <zoti***@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> I've found that when restoring from a Ghost image, Win XP is
> very particular that the new partition that the image is restored
> to is not smaller than the original partition. A smaller partition
> leads to boot-up problems like the one you described. No
> problem with Win9x, and XP doesn't seem to mind if the
> new partition is larger than the old one.
>
> However, I've been using only the cut-down OEM version
> of Ghost, and I usually Ghost only individual partitions and
> not whole drives.

10 Feb 2005 5:58 PM

Wayne Morgan

Yep, that was it. Using the Recovery Disk to restore the image so that it
could rewrite the original disk signature did the job.

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Wayne Morgan

10 Feb 2005 9:22 PM

me

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:58:18 GMT, "Wayne Morgan"
<comprev_gothroughthenewsgr***@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Yep, that was it. Using the Recovery Disk to restore the image so that it
>could rewrite the original disk signature did the job.

Hi

I think that this is a major point.

I have had Ghost 2001 for about 3 years and I've never used it in
anger. In the early days I did backup and then restore as an exercise
and it did reboot perfectly. I don't remember anything about a
recovery disk. I might have used the one that Ghost creates for you.

The point is that from time to time i have created an image file of a
partition in the fond expectation that it can be restored.

Would happen if I booted up to the Ghost floppy and tried to create an
image of the XP O/S partition?

Colin

11 Feb 2005 4:59 PM

Zotin Khuma

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> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:58:18 GMT, "Wayne Morgan"
> <comprev_gothroughthenewsgr***@hotmail.com> wrote:
>

...........<snip>.........

>
> Would happen if I booted up to the Ghost floppy and tried to create an
> image of the XP O/S partition?
>
> Colin

I've often backed up an XP partition by booting from floppy or
a CD with a boot image. No problem with the NG 2003 OEM.
The Ghost.exe can be either on the boot media or on the HDD.