XP Pro Newbie - Ghost help!

[Jeff H]

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

P.S. I originally posted this to General Hardware, and a "replier" suggested I post it here - thus the double post.

P.S.S. I checked the Symantec website and it seems to indicate I can run it from w/i Windows or from a bootable floppy. What have your experiences been?

 

[happyhelper]

I sort of remember having problems initially with drives over 137gb on xp, you have to update drivers or something to get it working right... hth

 

[Gaunt]

I believe the fix for larger drives is included in XP Service Pack 1. This doesn't help too much when you're first installing unless you've got an install CD that includes SP1.

As for ghost, I'm not completely sure what you're trying to do, but it's also been a while since I've used ghost. Back when I did use it, I always booted from a bootdisk, since using it through windows wasn't an option. I'm fairly sure it's still able to work just from a disk, but I'm not sure if this is going to introduce other issues with the size of your new HD.

Edit: I guess you can ignore this, as I see from your other post that the problem is solved. Interesting, I had never really thought about the need to do anything besides a quick format on a new HD. I always choose a full format unless there's a good reason not too, so it never came up.

 

[bsmithy]

Originally posted by: Gaunt
I believe the fix for larger drives is included in XP Service Pack 1. This doesn't help too much when you're first installing unless you've got an install CD that includes SP1.

As for ghost, I'm not completely sure what you're trying to do, but it's also been a while since I've used ghost. Back when I did use it, I always booted from a bootdisk, since using it through windows wasn't an option. I'm fairly sure it's still able to work just from a disk, but I'm not sure if this is going to introduce other issues with the size of your new HD.

Edit: I guess you can ignore this, as I see from your other post that the problem is solved. Interesting, I had never really thought about the need to do anything besides a quick format on a new HD. I always choose a full format unless there's a good reason not too, so it never came up.

if he has a cdrw he can slipstream sp1 into a new disk and install from that