Maxtor 120gig HDD won't Ghost?

[Noozer]

I've just purchased a 300gig HDD to replace a full 120gig drive. I want to
use Ghost 9 to copy the 120gig disk to the 300gig disk, but it is not
working.

When the Ghost process starts, nothing happens except that the 120gig drive
"clicks" like it is trying to seek sectors that don't exist. Using Ghost to
"Check" the disk results in the same thing. This happens even when the
120gig drive is alone in the PC.

The drive boots to WinXP Pro without a problem. Drive is formatted as a
single NTFS partition. WinXP's scandisk finds no errors. PC is recent (Intel
875P chipset) so drive size isn't an issue.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

I may be able to do a partition to partition copy, but that won't allow me
to boot from the new drive, will it?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

[Jan Alter]

Hi,

I'm assuming you're attempting to clone the drive. I remember using
Ghost 9 to do this, but I recall using Ghost to make an image of the current
drive onto a USB external drive and then used a Ghost startup CD-ROM to
start the system and then restored the image to the new larger drive I
wanted to make my new current drive. It did work and I was happy with the
method 'til last year when I discovered something much better and versatile.
That software was Acronis True Image 8.0
How have you got the new drive configured on your system that you want
to clone? That alone could have a bearing on why it may not be copying
correctly.
If you are not beneath being pragmatic then find the site of the new
hard drive manufacturer. It usually has free software that you could be
downloaded from its site to copy your old hard drive to your new one.
Further, if you want to try Acronis you could downoad it for fifteen days
free and give that a shot. As I mentioned before it runs rings around Ghost
in both its simplicity and facility in use.

 

[Victor Smith]

Hi,

I'm assuming you're attempting to clone the drive. I remember using
Ghost 9 to do this, but I recall using Ghost to make an image of the current
drive onto a USB external drive and then used a Ghost startup CD-ROM to
start the system and then restored the image to the new larger drive I
wanted to make my new current drive. It did work and I was happy with the
method 'til last year when I discovered something much better and versatile.
That software was Acronis True Image 8.0
How have you got the new drive configured on your system that you want
to clone? That alone could have a bearing on why it may not be copying
correctly.
If you are not beneath being pragmatic then find the site of the new
hard drive manufacturer. It usually has free software that you could be
downloaded from its site to copy your old hard drive to your new one.
Further, if you want to try Acronis you could downoad it for fifteen days
free and give that a shot. As I mentioned before it runs rings around Ghost
in both its simplicity and facility in use.

Don't know how that's possible, since IMO Ghost is about as simple as
software can be. But I use Ghost 2001.
I'm interested in hearing how Acronis is better.
The only time I've seen Ghost encounter a problem with disk access is
with a drive that was going south. Scandisk showed no problems, but
both DOS Ghost and XP would occasionally fail to read the disk.
I kept the drive for a while for non-critical data, but it got worse
so I tossed it.
Whatever read/write scheme Ghost uses may reveal disk flaws that
scandisk doesn't, or it may be a question of timing/heat when the
different functions are performed.
Your suggestion to try Acronis is a good one. Can't hurt.

--Vic

 

[Noozer]

I'm assuming you're attempting to clone the drive. I remember using

Ghost 9 to do this, but I recall using Ghost to make an image of the
current drive onto a USB external drive and then used a Ghost startup
CD-ROM to start the system and then restored the image to the new larger
drive I wanted to make my new current drive. It did work and I was happy
with the method 'til last year when I discovered something much better and
versatile. That software was Acronis True Image 8.0

Yes... trying to clone the old drive directly to the new drive - both drives
on one IDE cable, old as master and new as slave.

How have you got the new drive configured on your system that you want
to clone? That alone could have a bearing on why it may not be copying
correctly.

Even if I disconnect the new drive I still have the same issue when Ghost
tries to check the old drive, so I'm thinking that something is wrong with
Ghost or with the partitioning, etc. of the old drive. I just can't figure
out what it is, since the drive has no issues when checked by XP.

If you are not beneath being pragmatic then find the site of the new
hard drive manufacturer. It usually has free software that you could be
downloaded from its site to copy your old hard drive to your new one.

I never thought of that... Both drives are Maxtor.

Further, if you want to try Acronis you could downoad it for fifteen
days free and give that a shot. As I mentioned before it runs rings around
Ghost in both its simplicity and facility in use.

If I have no luck with utilities from Maxtor, I'll give this a try.

Thanks!

 

[Jan Alter]

I used Ghost 9 for about 4 months with no difficulty. Directions were
straight forward after reading the manual a little. Acronis does what Ghost
does more intuitively. Further, to see what is on a backed up image just
double click it; Acronis assigns it a new hard drive letter and the image
expands as if it is a hard drive. I don't believe Ghost did that. All the
files on the image can be accessed as if one were looking at the original
hard drive the image was made. Just like Ghost images can be appended and a
routine schedule set up to make or append an image.

 

[Noozer]

Even if I disconnect the new drive I still have the same issue when Ghost

tries to check the old drive, so I'm thinking that something is wrong with
Ghost or with the partitioning, etc. of the old drive. I just can't figure
out what it is, since the drive has no issues when checked by XP.


I never thought of that... Both drives are Maxtor.

Downloaded MaxBlast4, but it won't do a disk copy...

If I have no luck with utilities from Maxtor, I'll give this a try.

Their downloads are trail versions and won't actually do the copy.

Looks like I may have to stick another manufacturers drive in the machine so
I can try their "disk upgrade" utilities.

 

[Gary Hendricks]

Ghost's has a major advantage over the freeware hard disk utilities.
When you copy a partition (like your C: drive) from an old hard disk to
a newer, bigger hard disk, Ghost automatically adds the extra space on
the new disk into the partition. This means you are saved from having
to either create another partition to use the extra space, or using a
third party utility like partition magic to do the job. Very
convenient.

Check out this article for more info on HD cloning using Ghost:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=418&page=7

 

[Chuck F.]

Ghost's has a major advantage over the freeware hard disk
utilities. When you copy a partition (like your C: drive) from
an old hard disk to a newer, bigger hard disk, Ghost
automatically adds the extra space on the new disk into the
partition. This means you are saved from having to either create
another partition to use the extra space, or using a third party
utility like partition magic to do the job. Very convenient.

Check out this article for more info on HD cloning using Ghost:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=418&page=7

de gustibus .... I would consider it a major nuisance, since I
already have the base partition as large as I want it. The new
disk space will be used for added partitions, and quite likely OSs.

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[Ralph Mowery]

Downloaded MaxBlast4, but it won't do a disk copy...


Their downloads are trail versions and won't actually do the copy.

Looks like I may have to stick another manufacturers drive in the machine so
I can try their "disk upgrade" utilities.

I have used older versions of Maxblast from Maxtor many times and it is not
a trial version and worked very well to make a duplicate of the disk. I
doubt they would have changed it to a trial version. I said older versions,
I see that the file is dated about a year ago, so I have used this version.

 

[Noozer]

Downloaded MaxBlast4, but it won't do a disk copy...

I have used older versions of Maxblast from Maxtor many times and it is
not
a trial version and worked very well to make a duplicate of the disk. I
doubt they would have changed it to a trial version. I said older
versions,
I see that the file is dated about a year ago, so I have used this
version.

The trial software was the Acronis disk imager.

MaxBlast has some usage limitations - it won't image any drive to any drive.
For example, I wanted to image my D: drive to my new 300gig drive. I pull my
C: drive out and installed the 300gig in it's place, booted the Maxblast
disk, and when I went to copy the drive it complained that there was no
system drive, so imaging was not possible.

I got it all done using Ghost and external USB enclosure.