- Need help GHOSTing XP drive
- Posted by The Traveler on November 2nd, 2005
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
- Posted by Michael W. Ryder on November 2nd, 2005
The Traveler wrote:
> 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.
> The Traveler
> Oceanside, California
- Posted by Yves Leclerc on November 2nd, 2005
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.
"Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:my8af.25245$zb5.10845@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> The Traveler wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
>> The Traveler
>> Oceanside, California
- Posted by The Traveler on November 3rd, 2005
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:35:46 GMT, "Michael W. Ryder"
<_mwryder@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>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
- Posted by The Traveler on November 3rd, 2005
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:46:22 -0500, "Yves Leclerc"
<yleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>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
