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ghosted a dual-boot drive, only one OS boots on ghost

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Packy

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Hey everyone,

My setup used to be as follows:

- Maxtor 60gig - 98/XP dual boot (C:/D🙂
- Maxtor 40gig - backup of D:

I want to have the IBM as my primary drive since it's a 7200rpm drive and the Maxtor is a 5400, so it'll work better as the backup drive. Ghosting the Maxtor onto the IBM drive works perfectly, and both partitions get copied over. The problem is when booting... 98 boots great on the IBM, but when I try to boot XP it takes forever and then freezes on the XP "welcome" screen. I've tried repairing it from the XP CD when the computer boots, but even when I say to repair, it tries to reinstall the OS and freezes anyway. I was careful to remove the Maxtor before trying to boot with the IBM, since I know having both drives visible can cause problems. Eventually, the Maxtor will just be an image of D:, but right now I just need it to boot.

Would using a Maxtor drive instead of an IBM fix this problem?

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

Darin
 
If you will read the manual that came with Ghost (my copy of Ghost 2002 did, anyways), it mentions that once you ghost the drive over to the new drive, you MUST unplug the old drive before you restart the system. Failure to do so can result in total system hoseup on BOTH drives.

Try it and see if this helps any.
 
Thanks for the suggestion Bill, but unfortunately I already tried that (above I wrote "I was careful to remove the Maxtor before trying to boot with the IBM, since I know having both drives visible can cause problems.").

I appreciate the assistance though 🙂
 
Hm, perhaps you let Ghost adjust the partition sizes upwards for the new drive? Could be that XP doesn't like have it's partiton start beyond the darn 1024th sector.

How is the source drive partioned?
 
XP doesn't "ghost" well, at least not with earlier versions of ghost. If you want to ghost win2k or win xp, you should use ghost 2002 Personal Edition.
 
Thanks for the comments guys. As far as I can tell, Ghost adjusted the size slightly down so it could fit (the new drive is only really 57 gigs, and the old one is around 58). Also, the version of Ghost I'm using is 2002, so it shouldn't be having too many problems.

UGH... now I'm having another problem though! The IBM drive is all screwy because I stopped a format part-way through. Now windows can't see it as the right size. Should I fdisk it, and if I do what parameters should I use to reset the FAT? Thanks!
 
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