Copying Hard Drive in Win 2k Pro

[i20west]

I am running Windows 2000 Pro using Fat 32.

I just bought a Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM HD and want to copy my old Wester Digital 8GB over to the new drive.

I have tried Norton Ghost but I get some sort of error about it not running in Windows 2000. I also tried using the utility that comes with the Maxtor drive, but there is a bad cluster on the WD. When it gets to that cluster, it stops copying and gives an error.

One other little bit of info - checkdisk always tries to run when I'm booting up Win2k, but when I let it run it seems to take forever.

Is there any way around this problem so that I can get the entire drive copied?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[Ladi]

If you wish to use Ghost, copy ghost.exe to a bootable floppy (or use the Ghost Boot Wizard), boot to the floppy, then run ghost.exe

[edit]Ghost Enterprise 6.5.1 works with win2k NTFS, from personal experience...i would assume it can handle fat32 as well[/edit]

~Ladi

 

[RobSan]

You didn't mention the Ghost version you have, but you will need Ghost 2001 in order to use Windows 2000. Drive Copy 3.0 is another solution that works with Win2000.

Rob

 

[Askalon]

also the reason you get that checkdisk at startup is because you have Fat32 as your file system, with that being said, you should be able to use any version of Ghost. Ghost 2001 supports NTFS5 (NTFS used by Win2K), earlier versions didn't see Fat32(hence the difference), but you are using Fat32 instead so you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[i20west]

OK, I've gotten Ghost to work in Win2k.

Now, should I use the partition to partition copy or should I do the disk image? Finally, will Ghost overlook the bad sector on my HD or is it likely to crash like the Maxtor program did?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[Techwhore]

do the disk image, copying partitions that contain boot/system info doesn't always come out right.

I actually have this same exact problem, spent 3 hours last night working on it. I have norton ghost 2001, it doesn't work in 2000, i need to boot to floppy. Once i'm in ghost, i can't read any of my ntfs partions, have 4. So i converted one to fat32 and was able to read it but it came out messed up. I then went to partition magic to copy the partition and that worked. However, now when i boot off the new drive, with the copied partition, it loads windows and freezes after my admin login. When it locks up it also makes an on going beep. What's up?

 

[Askalon]

well, since you made it Fat32, Fat32 doesn't keep file permissions. i would assume it is trying to access the permissions of the file and can't. But I could be wrong on this since I have never tried it.

 

[tracerbullet]

Isn't there an xcopy32 command or something like that through DOS, with a lot of switches attached that basically copies everything no matter what type of a deal? Or would that not work for some reason (DOS versions or lack of?) Simply and free if it does... might be worth a shot.