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Need help cloning to a Raid setup with Norton Ghost

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WebDude

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Well, I'm sorta new to Ghost, and I almost got it to work, but not quite. My old install is Win2k on a single hd. I want to clone it to a newly created raid array, and boot off the raid setup. The raid is a built-in Highpoint controller on an Epox mb. Anyways, I installed the 2 hd's on the raid controller, created the array, booted off the old hd (which is running off the normal IDE controller on the mb -- it's not running off the highpoint controller) into win2k, went into administrative tools, storage management, and partitioned the new raid array and formated it (ntfs). Then I shut the computer down, and booted off a floppy with Ghost 7.0 on it. Ghost saw both the old hard drive and the new raid setup, and I executed the cloning procedure. When I rebooted back into win2k (booting off the old hd), it looked like the cloning procedure had been successful. But if I shut the pc down, remove the old hard drive, and try to boot off the raid array, I only get so far, and then get a windows message. I get to the blue background of the desktop, with a mouse pointer, but nothing else, and get a message saying I have no paging file, and that I need to create one by right clicking on "my computer", etc. But I have no "my computer" to right click on, only a blue desktop with a mouse cursor. No start menu, no nothing else. Doing the 3 fingered salut brings up nothing.

I tried to "repair" the raid array, using the win2k install CD and the emergency repair floppy, but that doesn't work.

Any ideas on how to repair this? Or what is the proper way to clone a win2k install and make it boot sucessfully? I could reinstall win2k on the raid array from scratch, but doing all the upgrades and installing all the apps would take forever, and I'ld really like to avoid that if I can.

Thanks in advance.

WebDude
 
RAID 0? If so, I don't think you even need to use Ghost. The utility built into the Highpoint BIOS should do it for you.

I have only done RAID 1 though, so I could be wrong. 🙂
 
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