HELP! Dual-boot clone operation only half successful!

[alzan]

Hello all. Have a large problem that I could use help with. I had installed a new drive in a friend's computer, and attempted to clone his dual boot to the new drive.

It was only half successful; the Win98 partition boots just fine off the new drive, the WinXP partition just hangs.

What I did was install the new drive and initialized/partitioned/formatted under WinXP as follows: Drive 1, primary partition, 32GB FAT32 (for W98); extended partition 79.79GB NTFS (for WinXP). On the original drive, WinXP was in FAT32, so when Ghost cloned the second partition it did it as FAT32.

Here's what I'm thinking: either I should have formatted both partitions as primary partitions on the new drive; or I should have converted the WinXP partition to NTFS on the original drive before attempting the cloning operation.

Using Ghost 2003.

The computer is currently operating on it's original drive, but I would like to get this problem solved. I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,

alzan

 

[LiLithTecH]

If you are Cloning (or Imaging for that matter) there is NO
NEED to Partition or Format the drive.

Cloning the drive copies ALL the ATTRIBUTES of the original.

If you want to convert the WinXP FAT32 to NTFS, then you
should convert AFTER CLONING (leave the original in tack
until you are satisfied the Clone runs properly - i.e. Backup).

 

[alzan]

Thanks for the reply. I originally partitioned the drive thinking that FAT32 only allows me to see up to 32GB. The original drive in question is a 40GB divided in half. Do you know if Ghost 2003 will split the new drive in half as well during the cloning; and or would I have any trouble seeing the partitions under Win98?

I'm going back over to attempt a fix. I'll try just doing a drive clone and see if that works.

Thanks again

alzan

 

[redbeard1]

If you do a drive to drive clone, ghost will automatically proportion the new drive unless you change the sizes manually when it prompts you. If you try and just do a partition to partition clone in a dual boot, usually win2k\xp won't work unless you do a repair of some sort.

 

[alzan]

Problem fixed! Thanks to Lilithtech and redbeard1 for your knowledgeable replies. I should have thought of doing a drive clone instead of partition clone. Forgot the KISS principle.

New drive on the friends rig working just fine on either OS; (it's a Seagate 120GB w/8MB cache, in case you were wondering,) now if I could just keep him from installing every game under the sun.

:beer: Thanks again.

alzan

 

[Milkyman]

I'm actually having a very similar problem.
My primary hard drive was giving me a lot of SMART warnings so I decided to ghost it over to a larger drive (old drive 120gig, new drive 160gig). The original drive has two partitions and I used ghost to clone the entire drive which went off without a hitch. However, when I try to boot from this drive it gets to beggingin stages of windows xp boot and then hangs. I don't know what I can do. I"m using norton ghost 2003 and Windows XP pro. I'd greatly appreciate any help you guys could give as I've had a bunch of hard drive problems already and this would make the 5th time i'm reinstallling xp in less than a year if i cant get this to work.