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XP Pro Newbie - Ghost Help!

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Jeff H

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Guys,

I'm relatively new to XP Pro. Just picked up a 160GB Samsung 8MB PATA drive today, to replace the current 40GB 2MB Samsung drive. I hooked it up to secondary HPT372 channel and went into XP Pro and storage management section to set it up. I think the mistake I first made was to try a quick format instead of a full format.

Ghost 2003 seemed to work OK (have primary HD split into two partitions), doing a partition to partition image. However, the 160GB drive wouldn't boot. Tried an XP recovery routine, w/ FIXMBR, but that didn't do it. So, I went back in to XP storage mgmt and set up the disk again, this time doing a full format.

Is there any reason why I can't do a disk to disk image w/ Ghost 2003 from a bootable floppy setup? Or, do I need to do a Ghost install to my primary drive and run Ghost from there? I know that Ghost 2003 "drops out" to a DOS prompt to run, so it seems I should be able to do this from a bootable floppy.

Straighten me out here!

Jeff
 
You might want to try posting in the software forum for better results... I think though that you need to install ghost to your harddrive and run it from there though, I haven't really used ghost though.
 
Probably would have better if you just did a transfer from the old hard drive to the new hard drive. Ghost 2003 while popular is pretty complicated. I prefer Acronis, it's simple and better for noobs.
 
Guys, an update. Turns out I was pretty stupid in thinking I could do a Quick Format on a drive that hadn't been formatted previously. After I did a full format on the drive it Ghosted over just fine. I'm now running my system from the 160GB 8MB drive w/o issue.

I know I'll get used to XP, but so many things are just too complicated until you've waded through them a time or two. I've got to believe there's room for an OS that provides the stability of XP Pro while giving users some simplicity and basic networking (file sharing, printer sharing). MTCW!
 
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