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John Johnson

WinXP Pro, 2ghz machine.

Ive used Ghost before and it worked fine

Now its not for some reason. I Ghosted my primary drive partition to
another drive both Maxtor

I put that other drive in as the only drive and it gets as far as the
last blue screen but won't go to the desktop.

I changed jumpers, cable orders etc and it still won't fully boot.

But if its in as a slave drive I can see it fine.

Tried it with another similar Maxtor and the same problem
 
Um, SP2?
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No, actually getting reading for it by using a back up drive I was
trying to Ghost.

Now after spending a few hours ghosting and copy files between 3
drives and a 350 watt power supply that stoped working. At least for
a couple hours.
Now the video card, ATI AIW 7500 card is flaky. Assuming its a flakly
power supply which caused both problems.
 
It has to do with the Vol ID of the drive. If you just ghosted
the primary partition, then the volume ID wasn't changed to match
the original install because you formated the drive before Ghosting,
right?

I believe that you should have cloned the
entire drive using Ghost's clone utility, which, as far as I know,
clones the Vol ID, which doesn't alert Windows to any changes.
There are utilities out there to change the ID after the fact,
but I haven't found one that I enjoy using and you'll have to probe a
bit more to find out how to make the changes outside of WinXP.

Cheers,

Dave
 
It has to do with the Vol ID of the drive. If you just ghosted
the primary partition, then the volume ID wasn't changed to match
the original install because you formated the drive before Ghosting,
right?

I believe that you should have cloned the
entire drive using Ghost's clone utility, which, as far as I know,
clones the Vol ID, which doesn't alert Windows to any changes.
There are utilities out there to change the ID after the fact,
but I haven't found one that I enjoy using and you'll have to probe a
bit more to find out how to make the changes outside of WinXP.

Cheers,

Dave
 
It has to do with the Vol ID of the drive. If you just ghosted
the primary partition, then the volume ID wasn't changed to match
the original install because you formated the drive before Ghosting,
right?

I believe that you should have cloned the
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That makes sense but what do you mean by the clone utility. Don't
remember seeing that in Ghost. I think I have the 2003 version.
 
That makes sense but what do you mean by the clone utility. Don't
remember seeing that in Ghost. I think I have the 2003 version.
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Start Ghost 2003, then click on the advanced tab on the left. You'll
see the clone utility as the first option. I've only cloned entire disks,
but never just a partition, so you might want to try the partition first,
then, if that doesn't work, the whole drive.

Let us know how it goes,

Dave
 
Start Ghost 2003, then click on the advanced tab on the left. You'll
see the clone utility as the first option. I've only cloned entire disks,
but never just a partition, so you might want to try the partition first,
then, if that doesn't work, the whole drive.

Let us know how it goes,
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The orginal drive which was the master has more date that the drive I
what to ghost it to, thus the problem of cloning the entire drive.

Now for a couple reasons Im installing this on a new computer. Which
adds some problems.
 
Ive had the same problem John, I've used ghost extensively in the past but
using the same pratices it now stops at the blue welcome screen, will have
to investigate the volume id issue.

Like you I often dont want to clone a whole drive, I need to make a backup
image on a different partition to easily restore from, used to work fine...
 
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