how to run a ghost partition image from multiboot drive D to C

[gsmsikar]

i have a PC with two OS installed
C = Win 98
D = Win Xp

i want to change my Harddisk and also i dont want to have that win98
in my new harddisk ,
so i need only my win xp from D drive to my C drive in my new hdd, so
i make the ghost image of my D Drive with windows XP ,
then i made the partition on my new hard disk and installed the ghost
image to the first partition but it did not work ...

can anyone tell me what and how to change the settings of my winxp so
that it can run in the new hdd with only XP and not win98...

i think i have to change the boot setting , but donno what to do ...

please help me ...

thanks

 

[over]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

i have a PC with two OS installed
C = Win 98
D = Win Xp

i want to change my Harddisk and also i dont want to have that win98
in my new harddisk ,
so i need only my win xp from D drive to my C drive in my new hdd, so
i make the ghost image of my D Drive with windows XP ,
then i made the partition on my new hard disk and installed the ghost
image to the first partition but it did not work ...

can anyone tell me what and how to change the settings of my winxp so
that it can run in the new hdd with only XP and not win98...

i think i have to change the boot setting , but donno what to do ...

please help me ...

thanks

There were some files (hidden) on your old C: that were needed for XP to
boot. You could possibly copy these to your current C:, make C: active
and bootable, and change the boot.ini to match, but you would still have
many settings in the registry and various program's configuration files
that point to D: instead of C:.

 

[Guest]

Forget running "ghost software" xp already has the software to transfer hd
to hd completely.Simply move the new hd to slave on the same IDE cable,format
the new hd in xp,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,youre finished D: can now become
youre the new hd with xp on it.Also,D: being the new hd but if asigned
diffrent
letter then use that letter.

 

[Ron Sommer]

How is copying C:\*.* (which is Win 98) going to transfer XP?
--
Ronald Sommer

: Forget running "ghost software" xp already has the software to transfer
hd
: to hd completely.Simply move the new hd to slave on the same IDE
cable,format
: the new hd in xp,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
: Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,youre finished D: can now
become
: youre the new hd with xp on it.Also,D: being the new hd but if asigned
: diffrent
: letter then use that letter.
:
: "(e-mail address removed)" wrote:
:
: > i have a PC with two OS installed
: > C = Win 98
: > D = Win Xp
: >
: > i want to change my Harddisk and also i dont want to have that win98
: > in my new harddisk ,
: > so i need only my win xp from D drive to my C drive in my new hdd, so
: > i make the ghost image of my D Drive with windows XP ,
: > then i made the partition on my new hard disk and installed the ghost
: > image to the first partition but it did not work ...
: >
: > can anyone tell me what and how to change the settings of my winxp so
: > that it can run in the new hdd with only XP and not win98...
: >
: > i think i have to change the boot setting , but donno what to do ...
: >
: > please help me ...
: >
: > thanks
: >
: >

 

[gsmsikar]

Forget running "ghost software" xp already has the software to transfer hd
to hd completely.Simply move the new hd to slave on the same IDE cable,format
the new hd in xp,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,youre finished D: can now become
youre the new hd with xp on it.Also,D: being the new hd but if asigned
diffrent
letter then use that letter.

so if i do xcopy to my xp on D drive to the first partition of new
drive then will there be any problem ?
do i have to change anything else ?

or
is there any other way to copy my working OS on D partition to new
HDD ?

help...

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Restatement:

You want to use Ghost to make a clone of the D: partition
on your old HD and put it on the new HD as a single partition.
You have already created a partition on the new HD.

How-to:

Delete the C: partition on the new HD for simplicity since
Ghost can make one for you. The new partition needn't be
formatted. Tell Ghost that you want to make a clone of the
old D: partition and put it on the new HD in a new partition of a
size that you specify. Tell Ghost to mark the new partition
"active" (perhaps not necessary since there will be only one
Primary partition on the new HD, but telling Ghost to mark it
"active" won't hurt). The clone may call its own partition "D:"
since that's the name it had on the old HD. That will be of no
consequence unless the old OS on D: had shortcuts to files
on other partitions.

Then, before you boot up the clone to see if it works,
disconnect the old HD. This will cause the new HD's MBR
to get control at boot time AND it will make the old OS invisible
to the clone OS when it starts for the 1st time. If the clone OS
sees its "parent" OS when the clone starts up for the first time,
it can get seriously confused in subtle ways. Subsequent startups
with the "parent" visible to the clone are OK. BTW, startups of
the "parent" OS with the virgin clone visible to the "parent" are
always OK.

*TimDaniels*

 

[gsmsikar]

Restatement:

You want to use Ghost to make a clone of the D: partition
on your old HD and put it on the new HD as a single partition.
You have already created a partition on the new HD.

How-to:

Delete the C: partition on the new HD for simplicity since
Ghost can make one for you. The new partition needn't be
formatted. Tell Ghost that you want to make a clone of the
old D: partition and put it on the new HD in a new partition of a
size that you specify. Tell Ghost to mark the new partition
"active" (perhaps not necessary since there will be only one
Primary partition on the new HD, but telling Ghost to mark it
"active" won't hurt). The clone may call its own partition "D:"
since that's the name it had on the old HD. That will be of no
consequence unless the old OS on D: had shortcuts to files
on other partitions.

Then, before you boot up the clone to see if it works,
disconnect the old HD. This will cause the new HD's MBR
to get control at boot time AND it will make the old OS invisible
to the clone OS when it starts for the 1st time. If the clone OS
sees its "parent" OS when the clone starts up for the first time,
it can get seriously confused in subtle ways. Subsequent startups
with the "parent" visible to the clone are OK. BTW, startups of
the "parent" OS with the virgin clone visible to the "parent" are
always OK.

*TimDaniels*

Thanks

i need to use exactly the same option,
but which version of GHOST software can do all of these , i am using
the DOS based old version and i dont think there is any such
setting ...?
and i have made the clone of my partition with the old GHOST will it
work to restore if i use any newer version of GHOST ,
and as u have written , do i have to all these options while running
my working XP ?
or i will have to boot my PC in DOS mode and use GHOST ?

please reply...

 

[Timothy Daniels]

The Ghost that I have used is the one that was bought
by Symantec from PowerQuest, and it ran as a WinXP
installed utility. I don't think that it has changed much
since then except to add a few more functions. Be clear
that you want to make a clone - an exact sector-by-sector
copy of the original partition - not an image file. An image
file (or simply "image") is a file, usually compressed, of the
partition and thus not directly bootable or runnable. It has
to be "restored" from its archiving medium back to a hard
drive for it to be bootable. Ghost allows you to make both
backup formats, so be careful which one you choose. Since
a clone is an exact copy of the original, it shouldn't depend
on the version or publisher of the utility which produced
it. I'm not sure about an image file. In the case of the
"mark clone partition 'active'" option, it's only a convenience
since you can mark any Primary partition as being "active"
by using WinXP's Disk Management utility. When you run
the clone for the 1st time in isolation, unless you have Western
Digital HDs, you don't have to re-jumper the HD that contains
the clone OS. Since the clone's HD is the only HD left in
the system, it will automatically be seen by the BIOS as
being at the head of the HD boot order, and the BIOS will
pass control to that HD's MBR. Later, if you want, or if
you want to do dual-booting, you can make the clone HD
Master and the old HD Slave, but it's not a requirement.
If they are SATA HDs, it's the HD that has the lowest
no'd channel that is given control as a default. For both
PATA and SATA HDs, the HD boot order can be altered
by keyboard input to the BIOS, and you can thereby
control which OS boots as another method to accompish
dual-booting.

*TimDaniels*