Need help GHOSTing XP drive

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My 60GB HDD (NTFS is slowly failing so I bought a new one.

O/S Windows XP Pro SP2 on a corporate network (Exchange Server)

1. I configured the new 160GB drive as a slave (NTFS) and split it
into two partitions (main partition is 100GB);

2. I used GHOST 10 and GHOSTed a copy of my existing drive to the new
one;

3. I then disconnected the old drive and jumpered the new one as the
master;

4. After start up, I was presented the LOG-ON UID & PWD screen.

5. I enter my UID and PWD... this is where the problem starts:

The system seems to continue with the log-on process, then within a
few seconds, it logs off and brings me back to the LOG ON screen.

I reformatted the new drive and tried to GHOST the old one several
times with the same results.

Any ideas?

The Traveler
Oceanside, California
 
The said:
My 60GB HDD (NTFS is slowly failing so I bought a new one.

O/S Windows XP Pro SP2 on a corporate network (Exchange Server)

1. I configured the new 160GB drive as a slave (NTFS) and split it
into two partitions (main partition is 100GB);

2. I used GHOST 10 and GHOSTed a copy of my existing drive to the new
one;

3. I then disconnected the old drive and jumpered the new one as the
master;

4. After start up, I was presented the LOG-ON UID & PWD screen.

5. I enter my UID and PWD... this is where the problem starts:

The system seems to continue with the log-on process, then within a
few seconds, it logs off and brings me back to the LOG ON screen.

I reformatted the new drive and tried to GHOST the old one several
times with the same results.

Any ideas?

Are you able to boot into Safe Mode? After Ghosting my hard drive I had
to boot into Safe Mode and exit before it worked correctly. Don't know why.
 
You copied a drive to a new partition. This will cause the Master Boot
Record to not to be correctly copied (needs to be first in the partition
tables). What you should have done is a "disk to disk" copy and adjust the
size of the new "drive" to the size you want. It seems that you did a "disk
to partition" or a "partition to partition" copy.
 
Are you able to boot into Safe Mode? After Ghosting my hard drive I had
to boot into Safe Mode and exit before it worked correctly. Don't know why.

Nope... same problem from within SAFE mode
The Traveler
Oceanside, California
 
You copied a drive to a new partition. This will cause the Master Boot
Record to not to be correctly copied (needs to be first in the partition
tables). What you should have done is a "disk to disk" copy and adjust the
size of the new "drive" to the size you want. It seems that you did a "disk
to partition" or a "partition to partition" copy.

Makes sense.

However, I was under the impression that GHOSTing a drive was the way
to go. After all, why do they sell such an application in the first
place? Unless I misused it (would not have been the first time that I
mess-up ;-)

I will retry on Thursday and report back to this group.

Thanks for the suggestion.
The Traveler
Oceanside, California
 
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