Need help using ghost

[SemperFi]

I have 2 30 gig drives and I want to move my os from drive a to b. I booted using ghost disk and saved the first partition to image. It broke up the file to 2gig max size for some reason but I figured it doesn't matter.

I then tried to ghost it onto the b drive. everything went fine and ghost said completed fine. I took the a drive out of system and made new drive a the only disk in system. Well I get error saying ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted.

Next I try to ghost partition of a drive to partion of b drive. again ghost says everything successful. i remove drive a and replace with b drive. I get the same error. So then I try to boot using a drive and copy ntoskrnl.exe from the a drive to the b drive. Same results. So I do the same thing again except in safe mode. Remove a drive and get the same error.

What the heck am I doing wrong? I have windows 2000 on drive a that I want on drive b so I can put drive a into another system. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or what I am forgeting? This is really starting to make me mad. I am trying to upgrade my system and I can't even get past the first step. I was expecting to be a lot further along than what I am. :|

 

[altonb1]

Are you ghosting disk to disk or to an image file?

Boot to a bootable floppy. as long as you aren't running NTFS, you should be able to access ghost on the D: drive, so copy the program to D:\Ghost if you can. if you can't run it from the CD. (Make sure your floppy is configured to load the CD drivers.) Run the program. Create a Ghost image file on D. Shut down the system, then copy the image file from D: to C:, or even better, burn the image to a CD. Repeat the above procedures, but this time restoring the image (now on C: or the CD) to D. Remove the C: drive, assign proper jumpers as needed, and then reboot system. This SHOULD work. Please note, however, that your original drive HAS to go into an almost identical PC. Since 2000 is built on NT's technology, it's not like Win9x where you can just add/remove components at will. As such, if you put your original C: drive into a machine with a different type of processor, it is NOT going to work. You will get a BSOD.

-al-

 

[SemperFi]

Ok I tried going to an image and back and recieved error. I then tried partition to partition because both drives have 2 partions and I just want the first partiton to go onto the first partition of the new drive. I also tried as stated above not very clearly, creating an image then using ghost to put the image onto the new or b drive. Both ways gave me the ntoskrnl.exe error above.

I am backing up the second partition on the second drive right now and going to try disk to disk ghost maybe that will do it.

This drive is going to the same system I am just juggling harddrives in my systems. I am getting ready to move to raid and I don't have room in my case for 5 harddrives. I am moving my oldest drive to the kids system as a secondary drive.

Edit/ I am writing off of my b drive now the disk to disk seemed to work. Thanks

Semper Fi