How to "Ghost" clone Drive 1 to Drive2 and leave Drive 2 CONNECTED and BOOTABLE?

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Pete Goddard

How does one Norton "Ghost" clone Drive1 to Drive2 and
leave Drive 2 connected and still BOOTABLE? If Drive2 is
left connected internally the system Drive(1) alters it
and makes Drive 2 UNBOOTABLE. I am tired of physically
opening my computer and disconnecting Drive2 after
a "clone" in order that
I may boot fron Drive2 if and when Drive1 fails. Norton
customer service has been of absolutely no help on this!
Please help!
THANKS in advance!
Pete Goddard
 
I use a program called Casper XP to clone my C: drive to a second drive
every couple of weeks. All I have to do is go into setup and tell it to
boot from the other drive. This program runs right off my desktop. It
works well and can be downloaded from:
http://www.fssdev.com/webstore/Default.asp?bhcd2=1068081017
Unfortunately I just checked and it went up 20 bucks since I bought it,
44.95. Sorry I know it's not an answer to your question but it might solve
your problem. Dave
 
Backup created by Ghost will not work unless it is literally "restored"
or is replaced where the original installation resides. If your BIOS
allow switching boot order prilority between hd0 and hd1 then there is a
way to do what you want to do.

Kaz
 
Pete Goddard said:
How does one Norton "Ghost" clone Drive1 to Drive2
and leave Drive 2 connected and still BOOTABLE?
If Drive2 is left connected internally the system Drive(1)
alters it and makes Drive 2 UNBOOTABLE.
I am tired of physically opening my computer and
disconnecting Drive2 after a "clone" in order that
I may boot fron Drive2 if and when Drive1 fails.
Click to expand...

Others have suggested CasperXP, which does a good job of copying the
operating system (technically, CasperXP doesn't make clones), but Ghost
does just as well, so there's no reason to spend more money if you
already have Ghost.

Drive1 will not inherently alter Drive2 and make it unbootable, so I
suspect part of your problem is conceptual -- just what are you trying
to accomplish? Are you trying to setup a dualboot system? If so, are
you using a boot manager? Which one? If not (and if you don't want to
physically open up your computer when Drive1 fails), then how do you
expect the computer to ignore Drive1 and boot from Drive2?

Usually, this is done via a boot manager or by changing the boot setting
in your computer's bios, but you need to tell us what your plan is.
Neither Ghost nor CasperXP will create a dualboot setup for you, they
just duplicate the operating system onto another partition and it's up
to you to work the two OS's into a dualboot plan, so you gotta have a
plan.
 
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