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I have a somewhat strange setup and am finding it difficult to clone.
I had Windows 98 and added Windows XP and Linux so now I have
disk 1:
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| C: WIN98 BOOT (FAT32)| J: XPHOME BOOT (NTFS) | K: DATA3 (NTFS) |
| PRIMARY PARTITION | LOGICAL PARTITION | LOGICAL PARTITION |
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disk 2:
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| LINUX BOOT | D: DATA (NTFS) | LINUX SWAP | LINUX ROOT |
| PHYS PARTN | PHYS PARTN | PHYS PARTN | PHYS PARTN |
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disk 3:
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| E: DATA2 (NTFS) |
| PHYS PARTN |
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My main drive (disk1) is throwing up some errors every now and again so I
got a new drive (same size 120GB) and wanted to copy the data. I have
successfully copied the C: partition but am having problems copying J:. I
have tried doing a restore to an NTFS formatted partition from my Maxtor
Onetouch II backups (files only), I have booted to Linux (Mandrake 9.0) and
done a dd and I have bought Ghost 9.0 and copied the partition whilst booted
into XP (Ghost 9.0 apparently supports copying the boot partition for XP). It
all seems to work until I try to boot from the new drive. It seems to start
up and then just hangs at the screen saying that Windows is starting (just
before the login prompt/screen appears).
The problem seems to be that I cannot assign the drive letter J: to the
newly copied partition and so when it starts it tries to assign it a new
letter (which isn't J the boot process then just halts at that screen.
I've tried booting in safe mode (which I would think avoids using drive
letters for the important stuff) but it just hangs. I'm anxious to complete
the transfer before my main drive dies.
I have also installed XP on another disk and then went in and change the
drive letter for the normal XP boot partition.That doesn't help (I presume
because the drive letter is associated with the XP installation rather than
the partition itself)
Any ideas?
L
I had Windows 98 and added Windows XP and Linux so now I have
disk 1:
----------------------------------------------------------------
| C: WIN98 BOOT (FAT32)| J: XPHOME BOOT (NTFS) | K: DATA3 (NTFS) |
| PRIMARY PARTITION | LOGICAL PARTITION | LOGICAL PARTITION |
----------------------------------------------------------------
disk 2:
-------------------------------------------------------
| LINUX BOOT | D: DATA (NTFS) | LINUX SWAP | LINUX ROOT |
| PHYS PARTN | PHYS PARTN | PHYS PARTN | PHYS PARTN |
-------------------------------------------------------
disk 3:
-----------------
| E: DATA2 (NTFS) |
| PHYS PARTN |
-----------------
My main drive (disk1) is throwing up some errors every now and again so I
got a new drive (same size 120GB) and wanted to copy the data. I have
successfully copied the C: partition but am having problems copying J:. I
have tried doing a restore to an NTFS formatted partition from my Maxtor
Onetouch II backups (files only), I have booted to Linux (Mandrake 9.0) and
done a dd and I have bought Ghost 9.0 and copied the partition whilst booted
into XP (Ghost 9.0 apparently supports copying the boot partition for XP). It
all seems to work until I try to boot from the new drive. It seems to start
up and then just hangs at the screen saying that Windows is starting (just
before the login prompt/screen appears).
The problem seems to be that I cannot assign the drive letter J: to the
newly copied partition and so when it starts it tries to assign it a new
letter (which isn't J the boot process then just halts at that screen.
I've tried booting in safe mode (which I would think avoids using drive
letters for the important stuff) but it just hangs. I'm anxious to complete
the transfer before my main drive dies.
I have also installed XP on another disk and then went in and change the
drive letter for the normal XP boot partition.That doesn't help (I presume
because the drive letter is associated with the XP installation rather than
the partition itself)
Any ideas?
L