Cloning WinXP F drive solved

[squeeky]

Hi: my system has two hard drives. F, which is a WD 40GB and is NTFS and master, and C, which is FAT32 and 10GB. I recently purchased some removable drive trays so I could remove and store data, and I wanted to make a backup of my system disk (F) should my original go down. To that end this is what I did

1. Bought another WD 40GB
2. Set it to slave, put it in tray
3. Set Bios to autodetect, disabled onboard virus, set boot to floppy.
4. Booted to Win98 dos
5. Put in Ghost disk
6. Ran ghost
7. Turned of computer
8. Set jumper on new drive to master, disconnected original master drive so that only the new drive was recognized. Set Bios to boot from new drive.
9. Rebooted. Everything looked good. Got to Blue screen (with windows xp and mouse arrow) and nothing.
10. Rebooted. Went to safe mode. Got to Blue screen in safe mode and nothing.

Why?

CD

[alex zorrilla]

Does your original F drive still work?
(Sorry, I'm not much of a Ghost expert.)

[squeeky]

yes. My original drive still works.

[alex zorrilla]

Might this have anything to do with the problem?

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...e?OpenDocument

I am thinking that WinXP on the cloned disk might have changed that drive's letter from F to D when you booted with it, so that's why it quit working? Maybe?

Which version of Ghost do you have, by the way?

--Alex

[squeeky]

Thanks Alex; I've tried everything. I've also used Ghost 7.5 and the new Ghost 2003. Same problem. I know it the drive letter assignment. So maybe there will be a fix, other than completely reinstalling everything on my F drive and making it a C drive. Then cloning it should be no problem.

squeek

[alex zorrilla]

Hey, squeek.

I was wondering... if you run the Windows XP Recovery Console... what do you see when you run the "map" command? This should display the devices, partitions, and drive letters.

--Alex

[squeeky]

Cloning WinXP F drive solved

Hello: I've asked zillions of people on a zillion BB's and shops and nobody knew how to do it. But people pointed me in the right direction.

If you installed WinXP in a dual boot situation and had 2 CD-Roms, and 2 hard drives, then WinXP installs to F. This is common for this configuration. If like many people you reformat the C drive or remove the original Win98 operating system and use C for data, WinXP still remains on F and the boot ini will be on F. This is normal.

If you want to clone your system drive, then, WinXP on F, and you put in another hard drive to clone it too (ie, you take out the original C drive and put in the new drive that you are cloning to) when you try to boot from the new cloned drive, it won't work. We have tried everthing. It has NOTHING to do with partitions, or Fixboot, or FixMBR. It has to do with the fact that the unique identifier (F) does not get transferred in a normal cloning, and so when you try to run the new disk (ie, your cloned XP system disk)it thinks it's C, but WinXP internally is pointing to F. You can't run repair, that won't work. The new disk will boo to the welcome screen and then hang.

Here's how you fix it: I ran Ghost 2003, but it will work in Ghost 7.5 because 2003 goes to PC-Dos anyways.

Use the following command line: -FDSP

That's it.

Thanks to all who helped on this project

squeek

[alex zorrilla]

Great!