Drive Image / Ghost with Windows NT Boot & System Partitions - PLEASE HELP!

[DieselMan]

Hi, I am in the process of getting a new SCSI Ultra2 Hard drive. I plan to keep the older hard drive, but I no longer want to keep it as my boot/OS hard drive. If I ghost all my partitions to the new hard drive, then reformat the old drive (so I can use it as a DATA drive), will I be able to boot properly into my Windows NT operating system? Do I need to change each of the drive's ID? The reason I want to ghost / Drive Image the hard drive is because I do not want to set up all the preferences/privileges/user profiles/system policies all again. Thanks for your time!

 

[Bozo]

Clone your OS to the new drive. Boot your PC -without- the old drive installed. Everything should come back. Then install your old hard drive on the secondary IDE channel or slave on the primary channel. Use Win2K to format the old hard drive.

Bozo

 

[DieselMan]

Bozo, thanks. Ok, now my problem is regarding the drive assignment; you've just told me how to take care of the problem on an IDE set of hard drives; I have SCSI drives; so what do I need to do to make the new drive the designated "boot master (in IDE language)" for SCSI drive? Do I just make the new drive ID=0, then make the old drive ID=1?

 

[io331]

<< Bozo, thanks. Ok, now my problem is regarding the drive assignment; you've just told me how to take care of the problem on an IDE set of hard drives; I have SCSI drives; so what do I need to do to make the new drive the designated &quot;boot master (in IDE language)&quot; for SCSI drive? Do I just make the new drive ID=0, then make the old drive ID=1? >>



In a SCSI chain the default boot dive has the ID of 0

On some SCSI cards you can change this though to allow other devices to boot YMMV....


As for Ghost... you can do all kinds of odd things... want a FAT16 drive over 2gigs go ahead... NTFS version 4 boot partition greater than 4 gig go ahead... of course depending on your system it's now unstable or unuseable... I don't know if they removed these &quot;features&quot; in the current ghost or not... I do like being able to resize partitions during a reload of my system though...