making a bootable image of a hard drive

[Charles Sarget]

I'm trying to copy the entire contents of one HD to make
a bootable image on another HD.

I used Drive Image to copy the drive on channel 0 (HD0) to
channel 1 (HD1), and I had used Disk Management to create
an "active" partition on HD1 to receive it. I then copied the
image of HD0 to HD1, telling Drive Image to copy the MBR
as well. The result is HD1 with all the files that I can see being
a copy of those on HD0, but Drive Image gives an error msg
saying that "Redundant copies of the FAT do not match the
active FAT". I called the HD1 partition "active" because I'd
like to be able to boot from it if HD0 should fail. Was that a
mistake? Should I have told Drive Image to copy HD0's MBR?
Thanks for any help on this.

#ChuckS#

 

[Supertech]

I am not sure but you generally can not have two master disk enabled
on the same system. If you do hardware Mirroring then you can create
the two identical disks and it will work ok. But I have seen in the past
that NT with a mirrored system disk would use both disk ok but if the
disked failed (0) then the system would still run but it would not boot from
drive (1) if shutdown to reboot.

What I would do is buy a copy of Ghost or one of the other "cloning"
software
packages and make a "copy" to your other disk as a (1) image file or save
set.
You could then use the remaining space for some other files.

Good Luck,

Supertech

 

[Charles Sarget]

What I would do is buy a copy of Ghost or one of the other
"cloning" software packages and make a "copy" to your other
disk as a (1) image file or save set.
You could then use the remaining space for some other files.

I used Drive Image, as I wrote, and it complains at the end
of the copy that "Redundant copies of the FAT do not match
the active FAT".


#ChuckS#

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Are you using version 2002 or newer. The older versions are not certified
for Windows XP.

 

[Charles Sarget]

"Crusty (-: Old B@stard " wondered:

Are you using version 2002 or newer. The older versions
are not certified for Windows XP.

I'm using Drive Image 7, which runs under WinXP.

#ChuckS#

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Update to 7.01 please. It's free!

"Crusty (-: Old B@stard " wondered:

I'm using Drive Image 7, which runs under WinXP.

#ChuckS#

 

[Charles Sarget]

Update to 7.01 please. It's free!

Does the update enable making bootable images?

#ChuckS#

 

[I'm Dan]

Crusty, you know better than to confuse DriveImage 7 with PartitionMagic
7! It's PM7 that you update to 7.01, not DI.

Chuck, the new DI7 is a POS that has many problems. Revert to DI 2002
(it should have come with your DI7) and run it from floppies, not from
within XP. As Crusty and the rest of us will attest, it works fine.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

I have made many bootable CD sets using both Drive Image 2002 and 7.01. They
have always worked fine.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

I am running Drive Image 7.01 right now - this minute - as we type!

It was a 366 meg "FREE" download, available to all who purchased Drive Image
7!

 

[Charles Sarget]

I have made many bootable CD sets using both
Drive Image 2002 and 7.01. They have always
worked fine.

That's encouraging. Were any of those bootable
images that of a Windows XP system?


#ChuckS#

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

They were all of the Windows XP and Windows 2000 partitions (separate
partitions). No reason to image anything else, as I keep My Documents on
partition D: and back them up daily!

 

[Charles Sarget]

Thanks, COB. I shall persist in my efforts.

#ChuckS#

 

[I'm Dan]

Oops, my mistake! I confused your reply with another thread in which
the poster was warned to upgrade PM7 to PM7.01 because PM7 was not
certified for XP. I thought that was your reply (to the other thread),
but now I can't find it again, so may have been someone else.

(I still think Chuck would be better off using DI 2002 from floppies,
but if he wants to soldier on with DI7, I won't bother him.)