Ghosted Drive not booting.

[DaveyEdgar]

Hi, I'm a bit perplexed,
I couldn't find a problem similar to mine in the forum so here goes. I have a seagate 20 gig that's filled up. I have a slave that is a maxtor 80 gig. I want to switch them. I created an ntfs partition and a fat_32 system_sav partition. I used Ghost 7.5 to create a boot disk and booted with it and cloned the two partitions from the 20 to the 80 respectively. So i then switched the drives on the cable so that the 80 was at the end of the cable and double checked the jumpers. The computer starts and i get to the windows xp welcome screen appears, goes blue, and hangs. Funny thing is that with the 20 as the slave it boots up, without it it hangs. I have a compaq presario running xp. I used disk management to make the partitions on the 80.

any help would be extremely appreciated. thanks!!!!

 

[wolluf]

'Funny thing is that with the 20 as the slave it boots up'. What boots up? The old installation or the new one? Where is your pagefile on XP (ie, which drive letter) and if when it boots as above, what drive letter is 'new' XP installation on?

 

[DaveyEdgar]

Hi thanks for the response!
Master Disk: 0 is the 20 gig
Drive c: system partition (what i'm using now)
Drive d: fat 32 system save.

Slave Disk: 1 is 80 gig
Drive f: ghost of drive c.
Drive g: ghost of drive d.

I removed the 20 gig, and changed the jumpers on the 80 to make it the master. With just the 80 gig connected, I booted with a win98 floppy, ran fdisk to make drive f: the active partition, then rebooted.
I get to the point where the blue windowsxp screen appears and then it hangs.

When i attach the 20gig as a slave drive on the same primary ide cable, then the machine starts up fine. Whether this has anything to do with it i don't know. I feel i'm missing something simple.

thanks again!!!!

 

[DaveyEdgar]

almost forgot,
drive d: has the page file

 

[jeremybarker]

Did you perform a sysprep before you ghosted? XP won't boot if you ghost a drive and change hardware w/o performing a sysprep.

 

[wolluf]

I think your problem is with the new drive on its own, XP is still treating it as drives f: and g: (ie, you have no c: and d: drives). This is just a guess. If true, then it can't create a pagefile on d: drive. I do know this situation causes Win2k to never get to a desktop, so I'm guessing it might upset XP too. There will also be registry entries pointing to C: (and perhaps D which may also cause problems. You can test my drive theory by going into XP's recovery console with just big drive connected (ie, boot from XP install CD, choose repair/recovery console - you'll need admin password). It will prompt you with any XP installations it finds, including the drive letter it thinks they are on (once at command prompt, you can use diskpart command to see both drive letters). If my guess is correct, can you ghost partition without creating destination first (I've got limited knowledge of Ghost, just had a little play so don't know)? Or alternatively create partition without a drive letter (disk management allows that). Or again Maxtor have utility (Maxblast I think) downloadable from their website to do what you want (transfer old to new disk). Hope this helps.

 

[DaveyEdgar]

hi, thanks all for the help it is greatly appreciated. I think i'll try the recovery thing cuz i kind of suspected the drive letters assigned may be the problem cuz when i put the 20 (with c drive as slave the 80 as master boots successvully. If that is in fact the case I wonder if the problem would still persist if i tried the sysprep first. I'll let you know.

 

[DaveyEdgar]

actually, one question, Can I use the recovery console to change the drive letters from f: g: to c: d:??

 

[DaveyEdgar]

it worked. I used the maxtor utility to copy the drive and it worked. thanks all