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chirivasp
It is easy to erroneously conclude that everyone on earth has your
problem, but i suspect that ghosting or cloning a smaller drive onto a
larger drive is a common need this time of year. I spent a lot of time
over the xmas holiday trying to do this, but always failed to get a
bootable XP partition even though the source was perfectly sound. [As
many of us, I have a 2nd smaller hard drive in the box which makes the
winxp partition drive e:.]
Anyhow, and with thanks to 'sqr' who joggled my noggin, the secret
here is to use Norton Ghost (having booted into DOS with Win98se
bootdisk) but jumper up the drives such that the source drive is the
2nd device (drive 1) and the destination (your new bigger drive) is
the 1st device (drive 0). Then simply ghost the 2nd to the 1st.
Somehow this preserves/creates the identity of the drives during the
winxp booting process. When I tried it the other way, the xp boot
would abort with a 'failed to load awgina.dll' message.
problem, but i suspect that ghosting or cloning a smaller drive onto a
larger drive is a common need this time of year. I spent a lot of time
over the xmas holiday trying to do this, but always failed to get a
bootable XP partition even though the source was perfectly sound. [As
many of us, I have a 2nd smaller hard drive in the box which makes the
winxp partition drive e:.]
Anyhow, and with thanks to 'sqr' who joggled my noggin, the secret
here is to use Norton Ghost (having booted into DOS with Win98se
bootdisk) but jumper up the drives such that the source drive is the
2nd device (drive 1) and the destination (your new bigger drive) is
the 1st device (drive 0). Then simply ghost the 2nd to the 1st.
Somehow this preserves/creates the identity of the drives during the
winxp booting process. When I tried it the other way, the xp boot
would abort with a 'failed to load awgina.dll' message.