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Maxx Taxx
I have a legal XP installation installation on a small (older) disk.
I intentionally installed it on the smaller disk since I wanted a basic
configuration "freezed". (with "windows update" done and some basic
installations)
My intention was since my son often get viruses on his larger disk that I
would be able to plug in this disk and restore his system.
So now I wanted to clone this disk onto the larger drive which would be the
one he would be using.
(After that I would remove the smaller disk and keep it until something bad
happened).
Now I have tried to clone the disk using to different methods but still with
the same result - which is :
Just before the login/welcome screen the PC freezes and shows a windows XP
logo.
The screen looks very much like the welcome/login screen - the same dark
blue borders at the top and bottom and the same XP logo on the lighter blue
area in the middle, but there is nothing else.
No accounts to log in to.
And it hangs there for ever and ever.
The disks are NTFS-formatted and I used the two following methods for the
cloning (I have used the first method succesfully once before and from what
I can remember I'm doing the same thing now):
1) Using "BootitNG". I marked the partition I wanted to copy and pasted it
onto the other disk.
I then wrote a standard MBR to the new area and set it to "active" before
applying the changes.
(the MBR was written to the same place as on the first disk btw)
I tried this method three times with the same result.
2) Using BartPE I built a CD from a "Windows XP service pack 2" CD. I
booted with that disk and then copied every directory except the
"Volume"-something directory that was already on it after the formatting.
The advice was to also set the partition as active but I didn't find a way
to do that yet.
Have someone run into this problem or knows why I get this problem ?
I have found some links with people with the same problem but not anything
indicating a solution except maybe this link (which maybe indicates there
might be something to do with setting the partition active ?) ...
http://www.decheung.com/2005/11/help-why-is-cloning-a-pc-drive-so-hard.html
snip ....
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"7. Download and burn Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org) ISO image.
8. Boot Knoppix with the new hard drive in.
9. After the Knoppix GUI starts, open a terminal and run "sudo bash" (or hit
ctrl-alt-f2 and get to console).
10. Run fdisk. Type 'p' to see the list of partitions. Type 'a' to set
active partition, and choose the one you want. This is the important step
that Windows doesn't seem to let you do. Type 'w' to write the changes to
the partition table.
11. Reboot.
12. Run FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from the XP Recovery Console. This may not
actually be necessary.
(.and for me: 13. Put old hard drive back in to deactivate Photoshop CS2 so
it can be reactivated on the new hard drive; 14. Put new hard drive back in
and reactivate Photoshop)"
I intentionally installed it on the smaller disk since I wanted a basic
configuration "freezed". (with "windows update" done and some basic
installations)
My intention was since my son often get viruses on his larger disk that I
would be able to plug in this disk and restore his system.
So now I wanted to clone this disk onto the larger drive which would be the
one he would be using.
(After that I would remove the smaller disk and keep it until something bad
happened).
Now I have tried to clone the disk using to different methods but still with
the same result - which is :
Just before the login/welcome screen the PC freezes and shows a windows XP
logo.
The screen looks very much like the welcome/login screen - the same dark
blue borders at the top and bottom and the same XP logo on the lighter blue
area in the middle, but there is nothing else.
No accounts to log in to.
And it hangs there for ever and ever.
The disks are NTFS-formatted and I used the two following methods for the
cloning (I have used the first method succesfully once before and from what
I can remember I'm doing the same thing now):
1) Using "BootitNG". I marked the partition I wanted to copy and pasted it
onto the other disk.
I then wrote a standard MBR to the new area and set it to "active" before
applying the changes.
(the MBR was written to the same place as on the first disk btw)
I tried this method three times with the same result.
2) Using BartPE I built a CD from a "Windows XP service pack 2" CD. I
booted with that disk and then copied every directory except the
"Volume"-something directory that was already on it after the formatting.
The advice was to also set the partition as active but I didn't find a way
to do that yet.
Have someone run into this problem or knows why I get this problem ?
I have found some links with people with the same problem but not anything
indicating a solution except maybe this link (which maybe indicates there
might be something to do with setting the partition active ?) ...
http://www.decheung.com/2005/11/help-why-is-cloning-a-pc-drive-so-hard.html
snip ....
-----------------------------------
"7. Download and burn Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org) ISO image.
8. Boot Knoppix with the new hard drive in.
9. After the Knoppix GUI starts, open a terminal and run "sudo bash" (or hit
ctrl-alt-f2 and get to console).
10. Run fdisk. Type 'p' to see the list of partitions. Type 'a' to set
active partition, and choose the one you want. This is the important step
that Windows doesn't seem to let you do. Type 'w' to write the changes to
the partition table.
11. Reboot.
12. Run FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from the XP Recovery Console. This may not
actually be necessary.
(.and for me: 13. Put old hard drive back in to deactivate Photoshop CS2 so
it can be reactivated on the new hard drive; 14. Put new hard drive back in
and reactivate Photoshop)"