Copying Drives in Ghost

[jdogg707]

I got a new SATA II 250GB Hitachi to replace my Seagate which is starting to run low on space. I have Ghost 9.0 and when I try to use the"Copy Drive" feature, everything copies fine, verification is successful, but when I unplug my current drive and use only new drive, booting hangs at the Welcome to Windows XP screen. I can't get past it. When I plug the old drive back in, everything works just fine.

Does anyone have an idea as to what is going on?

 

[TankGuys]

Originally posted by: jdogg707
I got a new SATA II 250GB Hitachi to replace my Seagate which is starting to run low on space. I have Ghost 9.0 and when I try to use the"Copy Drive" feature, everything copies fine, verification is successful, but when I unplug my current drive and use only new drive, booting hangs at the Welcome to Windows XP screen. I can't get past it. When I plug the old drive back in, everything works just fine.

Does anyone have an idea as to what is going on?

Have you updated the boot order in your BIOS to reflect the fact that you're booting of a SATA drive now? You probobaly have or you wouldn't have even gotten that far, but it's worth a look.

 

[jdogg707]

Ya, the new drive is on the First SATA channel and it is recognized as the first drive in the boot order.

 

[boomerang]

Acronis is the only software I have gotten to work with SATA drives in this situation. I had tried both Ghost and Drive Image.

 

[MplsBob]

I also own Ghost 9.0. Somewhere in my reading I stumbled across a statement that Ghost could not be used with RAID drives. I believe it was mentioned in a review I read.

I just now pulled up Ghost's HELP material and was unable to find any reference to RAID.

I did a quick search on the Internet there appear to be a number of people who have problems with Ghost 9 and RAID 0. However for everyone of those writers, there seemed to be someone writing that he had been using for quite some time and never had a problems with Ghost 9 and RAID 0.

Some responders, however, had concluded that Ghost 9 and some RAID hardware interfaces just don't work together.

I know this isn't a lot of help, but it is all that I could find.

Best wishes on this. Hope you find the answer soon. I must rush now, or I will be late for classes.

 

[Oyeve]

What service pack is your windows on?

 

[jdogg707]

I have XP Pro SP2, and this is not a RAID array, I am simply trying to copy the contents of one single drive, to a larger single drive.

 

[cubby1223]

Ghost 9 also comes with a Ghost 2003 cd, I'd suggest using that instead, boot from the cd and perform the disk copy, so you're not doing the copy from within Windows

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
Ghost 9 also comes with a Ghost 2003 cd, I'd suggest using that instead, boot from the cd and perform the disk copy, so you're not doing the copy from within Windows

I'd also recomend doing it from dos, you can also use a 98 boot cd with a copy of the ghost.exe (16 bit) on it. Boot to the floppy, get to the command prompt and type ghost. Should be able to do a drive to drive copy from there.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: ND40oz

Originally posted by: cubby1223
Ghost 9 also comes with a Ghost 2003 cd, I'd suggest using that instead, boot from the cd and perform the disk copy, so you're not doing the copy from within Windows

I'd also recomend doing it from dos, you can also use a 98 boot cd with a copy of the ghost.exe (16 bit) on it. Boot to the floppy, get to the command prompt and type ghost. Should be able to do a drive to drive copy from there.

I second this. Its exactly what I did when I went SATA on my boot drive.