Ghost 2003 restore 'did not properly generate arc'?

[jetspin]

Hi.

After running Ghost to 'Clone' or to 'Backup and 'Restore' a system C; drive of Windows XP Pro. I get this message when trying to boot the cloned or restored drive. "windows could not start...did not properly generate ARC names for HAL and System Paths". I have swapable drives on the same system. I've searched the net with no luck. I just want to be able to clone or restore a 'Master' of my operating system. Ghost runs okay, but the booting of the drive gives this message. Thanks in advance!

 

[smithdj3]

I have just encountered exactly the same problem - if a fix has been found, please let me know

 

[jetspin]

Hi.

I found the fix for me. First here is brief explanation which I found from someone else. Then I will follow with my own comments...

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It has nothing to do with Ghost, running sysprep partition size, or using new / old versions of fdisk. This is a fundamental hardware problem. The older disk you used origionally to install xp did not allow the bios to enable int13. WHen this happens xp writes the boot.ini (on the root of C: as having a drive signature to identify the boot partition rather than the normal "defaul=multi(x)" to identify the system drive partition. To fix this is 5 mins. Put the new disk (The one which won't boot) into another pc as a slave dirve, boot up and edit the boot.ini file on your malfunctioning boot sector. Edit lines which identify the system partition (you should see the drive signature entry which needs to be over written) with
default=multi(0)
and
multi(0)disk(0)
On my pc the whole boot.ini reads;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft WIndows XP Professional"
/fastdetect
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I edited my boot.ini on my cloned drive by booting with a 98 boot diskette to get to a cmd prompt. I think you can also do it with the XP boot cd. You have to get to the command prompt and edit it manualy. (This is the old msdos prompt). I could not edit it using xp control panel because that is the good boot.ini from the good system drive.! Its a catch-22.
The boot.ini is a hidden file so you wont see it when you do a dir command so you have to use the attrib command first to change its attributes to be able to edit it.

When you get a cmd prompt and are sure you are editing your cloned drive, you can continue. Make sure the drive letter is correct!!!!

type attrib +a -s -h -r c:\boot.ini and press ENTER
edit c:\boot.ini
do the edits as described above
exit the editor
type attrib +a +s +h +r c:\boot.ini and press ENTER

(A side note,, you might want to copy the boot.ini and rename the copied version as backup.)

My signature had specific hardware information instead of what is described above. I changed it to what is described above and it worked. Be sure to place drives correctly before rebooting. You may also want to look at the boot.ini of a working boot drive first to see what it looks like. You can do this in xp in the control panel somewhere.

Good Luck... It worked for me.....

Vern

 

[mlchris2]

Thanks for this post... you were a life-saver....



Mark C.
Network Admin - Digital Draw Network