Moving Partition

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Guest

HI

I have a machine that the System Partition is 8BG and I want to move a
different Disk and partition. I used Norton Ghost to clone the System
PArtition and added the appropriate boot.ini line. The first few boots new
system partition I would get svchost error can['t read memory. Now the system
hangs up at Loading Personal Settings.

Suggestions how to overcome this problem??

Regards

Meir
 
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Carey Frisch [MVP]

One cannot move a partition. You'll have to create
a new partition on a drive, then use Ghost.

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| HI
|
| I have a machine that the System Partition is 8BG and I want to move a
| different Disk and partition. I used Norton Ghost to clone the System
| PArtition and added the appropriate boot.ini line. The first few boots new
| system partition I would get svchost error can['t read memory. Now the system
| hangs up at Loading Personal Settings.
|
| Suggestions how to overcome this problem??
|
| Regards
|
| Meir
 
G

Guest

Carey Hi
Thanks for your response. However..

I guess I didn't explain myself well enough. I created the disk clone using
Norton on the second Hard Drive and I added to the boot.ini to point to the
new partition. The first time I accessed the new partition I got svchost read
error and the system stopped I had to do a hard reset. Now everytime I try to
access the system that was copied it Hangs up at the Loading Personal
Settings stage of boot up. How can I overcome this problem?

Regards

Meir
 
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Chris Priede

Hi,
Now everytime I try to access the system that was
copied it Hangs up at the Loading Personal Settings
stage of boot up. How can I overcome this problem?

The Ghost functionality that you used is intended for replacing hard drives,
not for creating a second installation of the operating system on the same
computer. The problem you are having is that the copy of your Windows
installation is now on a different drive (let's say E:), but contains many
references to the original drive (let's say C:) stored in the registry and
other places..

This kind of "move" is unsupported, although some hacks and third party
utilities exist that claim to do it (by updating all the references to the
old system volume).
 
G

Guest

Hi Chris ,

Thanks for the input. I manage to start the second installation under safe
mode without any problems and when I test for %systemroot% it points to the
i: drive which is the new install..

Any other suggestions??

Meir
 
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Hans-Georg Michna

Thanks for the input. I manage to start the second installation under safe
mode without any problems and when I test for %systemroot% it points to the
i: drive which is the new install..

Any other suggestions??

Meir,

you can use a registry search and replace utility to replace all
occurrences of C: with I:.

Or you can change the drive letter to C:. The original partition
would first have to be shifted to another drive letter.

With some luck this wouldn't even affect your original
installation, so you may want to try that first. If it does, you
may have to undo the change before being able to start the
original installation again.

More background information at http://winhlp.com/WxMove.htm .

Hans-Georg
 

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