Ghost 2003 + XP NTFS + SCSI = Failure......***ALMOST THERE!!***

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dudleydocker

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I have an 18 GB SCSI as my boot drive running through an Adaptec 39160 card. I have tried several times to clone the install onto a 73 GB Seagate. The clone process seems to work fine. When I reconfigure the SCSI card to boot from the 73 GB drive, I get an "OS error" or some such message. I have tried running the recovery console on the cloned drive (fixboot and fixmbr) without success.

I did a search on this category and found some references to troubles with NTFS and some specific settings in Ghost that need to be set.

Also, this is a corporate copy of XP so reactivation shouldn't be an issue.

Is there a wasy to do this sucessfully?

Thanks.

 
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Caanon

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I don't know your actual problem for sure...but from reading stuff in the past. It sounds like either you need to make sure windows has drivers for SCSI card, or more likely if it won't load windows at all you need to do something with ghost and the MBR (master boot record)

Do searches on the 2nd thing, I've never had problem myself, but from what I remember sounds similar.
 
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dudleydocker

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The SCSI drivers are resident in XP, at least on other XP installs I've done I haven't had to do the F6 thing...XP finds the card all by itself.

I tried doing a repair post-ghosting, and it didn't do anything.

In the SCSI card BIOS I have set the boot ID to the drive that I ghosted to...

How do I set the partition as 'active'?

Thanks guys....

 
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dudleydocker

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need4spped~

I read through the thread, thanks!

I tried to clone the hard drive on my daughter's PC (seagate 18 gb through an Adaptec 2940UW) to another seagate 18gb) and I was sure to be at the PC when the process completed so I could turn off the PC rather then let it reboot with both drives connected. I then disconnected the original drive and reconfigured the SCSI card to boot off of the cloned drive. Bingo! It worked!

So I went to my PC and did the exact same procedure. Upon boot-up after configuring the cloned drive as the boot drive I received the same message "error loading OS".....:(

Why didn't it work?!

 
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