Ghost question

[twharry]

Okay, so here's the situation...

I want to make an image of my WD 80gb HD because it's starting to make noise. It's an old drive, it's about to go, and I want to migrate everything to my newer, bigger drive. I have Norton Ghost 9.0 and have tried to use it.

Basically, what happened was that I ran the program and set it so that the drive being written to would be bootable. I took the 80gb out, switched the jumpers, and reinstalled the bigger drive as the master. It booted, but when I would try to open Office, it would say that Office is not where it's supposed to be. I would click "cancel" and Office would open. Other programs would return the same error, but they would not run.

I have my software set up exactly how I want it, and I want to use Ghost to do a few things. First, I want to migrate from my old drive to my new one. Next, I want to burn an image of this drive to another drive that I have, and store that in case my new drive fails. Finally, I want to create an image of my 80gb drive on my new drive in addition to the bootable one as a backup. If there's a software problem on my new drive, I want to restore the image from the one that is on the drive as the backup. If there's a hardware problem, I want to be able to just install the backup drive and have everything work.

Any idea why I got the errors that I did? Any tips for getting things running well?

Thanks.

 

[twharry]

Thanks.

 

[boran]

did you do a clone ?

The way to do it (imho) is:
set the 80 as master on the channel, boot on it, then clone that one to the bigger one, then switch that bigger one to master. should work.

 

[Arcanedeath]

do a sector by sector copy, WinXP sp2 doesn't work right w/ ghost 9, it will not copy correctly unless you do a sector by sector copy, I dunno when Norton is gonna fix it =( you will just have to add another partishion w/ the rest of the space on your new drive or use something like partishion magic to expand the volume. sorry cant spell lol.

 

[cockeyed]

Here is the way I use Ghost using a USB HHD. I backup to the USB HDD every couple of months or after making major system changes, otherwies the USB drive is unplugged. I ghost to a "File" on that drive. If I need to restore from it, I use a "Ghost Boot Disk" (Floppy) to boot with the USB drive plugged in. From that point forward, I just copy the Ghost image back to my main HDD if it should get messed up. I have also used this same procedure to install a new HDD. I would suggest buying a cheap HDD enclosure to make a portable USB HDD; create a Ghost Boot Disk; Ghost your old drive to the USB drive; restore this image back to your new HDD, then put the USB drive & boot Floppy in a drawer for future disaster recovery. BTW, I'm using the 2003 version of Ghost.

 

[phatrabt]

I'm a big fan of Ghost 2003. In my exp anything after that has been poo. As for what you want to do, clone mode should work.