ghosting win2k

[jungle]

I put a larger hard drive into one of my test servers and came upon a
problem.

the old hard is 15gig split into 3 partions (this machine multi boots w/
win95b and nt4 sp6)
2048mb fat16
2048mb fat16
10480mb fat32

win2k is installed onto the 2nd fat16 partition

i ghosted it all to a 45gib drive using ghost2002personal edition
2048mb fat16
2048mb fat16
38000mb fat32

now the machine takes about 5 minutes to attempt to boot into win2k then
sayes their is an :"hard error, if this continues check your hardware
documentation or see your system admin."

i went into safe mode, it said it is done installing new hard ware and
wanted to reboot, so i let it. it still wouldn't boot. I went into safe
mode again, and is disk manager everything looks just fine. Running scan
disk also found no errors.

any suggestions?

tia...

update...
i also tried reghosting it using ghost 7.0 corp. edition. I also did the partitions at the exact same size....so the new drive had something like 28gb of undefinded space. still no luck...

 

[SUOrangeman]

The AT FAQs are a wonderful thing.

Especially when you read the addendums.

-SUO

 

[jungle]

ok...none of that applies to me....

this is the same pc...i am simply taking out the old drive and replacing it w/ a bigger drive...thier is no need to worry about the changing of sids, or any other hardware.

i have ghosted win2k many a time b4, but this one has me puzzled.

 

[afzan]

this is what I've done in the past

-install new hd (keep old one and boot from it as usual)
-partition/format new hd
-remove the drive letter for the new hd from control panel->admin tools->computer management->disk management
-boot to dos, ghost drive as usual,etc
-pull out old hd, boot from new hd, should work great

 

[jungle]

update:

i ghosted it again, this time to a 27gb drive...guess what...the bloody thing works....
i tried it again, this time i manually created and formated the partitions on the 45gb drive, then ghosted partition to partition one at a time...still no go. (i have tried that trick a number of time and had it work in the past).

so is their some sort of issue with a super socket 7 board not seeing 45gb drives properly that win2k complains about but yet win95 doesn't care?

 

[SUOrangeman]

I recently upgraded my systems main HD from an IBM 40GB to a 120GB WD. I ghosted without changing the partition sizes. Both WinXP and Win2K would boot and let me log in ... only to log me out within 30 seconds. I went back and did a Sysprep (yes, even though it is the same system, excluding the HD swap) and Win2K has been strong since. I reinstalled WinXP, as it is far less important to me than Win2K. Hence, I stand by my recommendation a few posts up.

-SUO

 

[Relayer]

Did you disconnect the 15gig drive before rebooting after cloning?

 

[Farfrael]

@ Jungle ...
what is your mobo ?

The problem might come from here : my secondary IDE UDMA 66 controler is NOT recognized by win2k (but was recognized by win Me)
my mobo : ASUS A7V VIA KT133 chipset


What makes me think that is what you said ...... "not seeing 45gb drives properly that win2k complains about but yet win95 doesn't care? "

So, if you could give some more precisions about the IDE controllers you are using ....(i assume you are using IDE controllers)

My 0.2 Â?

 

[jungle]

i did indeed disconnect the 15gb before rebooting w/ the 45gb...

this is a FIC (super socket 7) 503+...it is a via chipset w/ umda 33 ide controllers,,,,,


thanks.

 

[Farfrael]

@jungle

i think it might be that ....
check VIA forum (a peculiar thread) for more precisions ....

Hope i am of any assistance here