Cloning a bootable HD

[YellowOnline]

Hello people,
I just installed a Windows 2000 and a bunch of software on a computer. I have a few other harddisks (for other computers) that need exactly the same configuration. So instead of installing them all apart I thought about cloning with Norton Ghost 2004.

Problem: it switches to DOS and can't see the slave disk there - same problem for all the harddisks I use, even of different brands. This is strange, because if I'd boot on a regular bootdisk I can access the harddisk from DOS.
Any clues?

Other possibility: I once stumbled upon a nice cloning program, other than Norton, and I liked it better. Unfortunately I have forgotten the name If anyone would know...

One last, small question: I didn't install Office yet, because I thought that cloning Office would give all users the username entered in the original Office installation - and of course I don't want this. Is my fear correct or not?

Thanks in advance!

Peace,

Yellow

 

[ski]

Are the other HD's partitioned and formatted?

 

[YellowOnline]

Hi ski,

Yes they are. As I said: I can see them in DOS, only Ghost doesn't see them.

Peace,

Yellow

 

[Jeff1994]

The other cloning program you may be thinking of is PowerQuest's DriveImage. I use it regularly and it's a little more user-friendly than Ghost. BTW, PowerQuest is now owned by Symantec.

Jeff C.
A+, Net+, MCP, MCSA

If all else fails, read the directions.

 

[biglebowski]

Try this ,I've used it to back up old os/2 machines we had as nobody knows how to reinstall and configure.

http://www.disk-image.net/drive-image.htm

The two basic principles of Windows system administration:
For minor problems, reboot
For major problems, reinstall

 

[YellowOnline]

Hello people,

Thank you for all of your replies, but I managed to solve it with Partition Magic (to clone the drive) and fdisk (to make the partition active). Hurray!

Peace,

Yellow

 

[ski]

Glad to hear that you fixed things, and thanks for posting back with the solution.