cloning problems

[MK]

Hi,
I bought BootIT NG to clone a hard drive so I could increase my drive size
from 40 GB to 160 GB. I spent a week now cleaning the new hard drive and
setting it up by copying and pasting the
partitions in BootIt NG and then taking out the
old HD. I've tried dozens of variations on the advice of the tech support. I
have the log-on, can get into my WIN98 partition, but XP gives me registry
failure: Stop 00000051, or can't load hive default_. My XP (SP2, all
up-to-date) setup runs great on the old HD, just running out of space. I had
run chkdsk on the old HD partitons before the copy several times to be sure.
Tested my memory, ran utility checks on both drives and they came out
"certified error free". I've images and restored....(I know all the jumper
options off by heart by now...) Once I tried a repair with the XP disk (i.e.
near reinstall, not repair console)which seemed to work, but that seemed
rather tedious after spending money on software to do it. Has anyone had
better experience with Ghost or any other software.
Thanks
Michael

C: is WIN 98 (2 GB) D is XP (extended) about 17 GB
NTFS, E: is data storage, about 18 or so GB (whatever is left), NTFS. I
copied all 3 partitions, set C active, resized only D (60 GB) and E (90GB)to
use the remaining space. I get the select OS screen and can get into WIN98,
but can't manage getting into XP

 

[Nick Burns]

Why do you need to clean a new hard drive...?

 

[MK]

Because the previous attempt failed (distinguishing between my new hard
drive that I bought and the old one)
MK

 

[Guest]

You dont need to waste time & money on 3rd party programs that cant
clone xp,most wont.To clone a hd in xp,simply format a drive with a primary
partition,set as slave on the IDE chain,once format is thru,go to run,type:
XCOPY C::\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window,when the
DOS window ends,youre thru.D: being the slave,although any letter its
asigned will work,also,if new wont boot up,boot to xp cd,install xp,repair
this
copy,you shouldnt need to though....

 

[Yves Leclerc]

When you are copying the partition, you may not be copying the MBR (Master
Boot Record), which does not seem to be part of any partition. I done
this before with Ghost so now I make sure that I to a disk to disk copy
instead. Windows 98 "boots" for the partition it is stored on but XP needs
MBR.

Norton Ghost (SystemWork 2003) will prompt you to resize the partiton during
your "disk to disk" copy.

 

[MK]

One thing I noticed is that when I go to
Recovery Console and use FIXMBR it gives me "This computer appears to have a
non-standard or invalid MBR..." When I go ahead and fix anyway and reboot
and run FIXMBR again, it says the same thing. Don't know if this means
anything.
MK

 

[Trent©]

One thing I noticed is that when I go to
Recovery Console and use FIXMBR it gives me "This computer appears to have a
non-standard or invalid MBR..." When I go ahead and fix anyway and reboot
and run FIXMBR again, it says the same thing. Don't know if this means
anything.
MK

Do as Yves suggested...do a disk to disk clone.


Have a nice one...

Trent

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