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Old 05-17-2003, 03:47 PM   #1
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cloning xp
Anyone hear of any problems cloning XP from one drive to another??Tried WD software no success...maybe norton ghost work better???
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Old 05-17-2003, 04:48 PM   #2
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I have tried Norton Ghost 2001 and it would not let me do it, I recently got NG 2002 with a new motherboard but don't have a spare HD now to try it on since I used that for new PC. The best I could figure from checking symantec suport site is that I did need to upgrade to NG 2002, but I can't tell you for sure that it will work...
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Old 05-17-2003, 06:13 PM   #3
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i use PowerQuest PartitionMagic 7.0 to copy winxp partitions
it works for me
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Old 05-18-2003, 05:04 PM   #4
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I have been able to use drive image to clone an image with xp. I have never had good luck with ghost. The times it has restored an image, the machine was very unstable.
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Old 05-19-2003, 10:57 AM   #5
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Thanks for the replys...
Is it microsoft thats making it more difficult to copy drive to drive...licensing bs??How do the other hd makers cloning software work ie maxtor etc any better that the western digital?I dont remember having any difficulties when Ive cloned win 98 or win me........
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Old 05-19-2003, 12:59 PM   #6
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I've used Ghost with W98 and ME and it worked great, had to use it to restore system from several times due to kids who never know what they did, and it worked fine, but couldn't even get it to read my HD with XP on it. I would like to try the 2002 version but just don't have a big enough spare workin HD at this time...
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Old 05-19-2003, 03:56 PM   #7
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I used GHOST 6.0 to clone my drive and it went over no problem.
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I used Norton Ghost 2003. I just left it overnight and the drive was copied over in the morning.
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Old 05-20-2003, 06:12 AM   #9
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Yea I think my older 2001 version is not capable of cloning Xp for some unknown reason, but I was really curious why, what is different about xp's ntfs???
I searched to error message I was getting with symantec support and pretty much concluded that I need a newer version of Ghost...
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Ya Im seeing that too....more problematic copying an ntfs partition over as opposed to a fat 32...
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I have used Norton Ghost to clone and restore my WinXP partition (NTFS).
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Only version 2003 supports NTFS partitions.... Earlier version do not. I have cloned with Norton 2003 with no problems...
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Old 05-21-2003, 02:16 PM   #13
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Only version 2003 supports NTFS partitions.... Earlier version do not. I have cloned with Norton 2003 with no problems...
I dunno about that... as I said above... I used my version 6.0 and it cloned no problem.
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My version is pre-2003 and it works too.
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I used ghost 2001; it cloned xp fine. It is just after restoring the image the machine was unstable. I have never had a problem with drive image. Perhaps it was just my machine it did not like.
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Old 05-21-2003, 03:51 PM   #16
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Can anyone give me step by step instruction on how to use ghost 2003 to copy my XP from one hard drive to another (on the same computer) When I tried doing it I somehow deleted my operating system..not once but twice in 2 days. I am a little sceptical now to say the least. Thanks
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Check out the Radified guide to using Ghost for good instructions. It looks like there is additional info there for Windows XP too on page 8.
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Thanks Doctorgonzo
I think this is just what I need. It may be a few days before I get to it but I'll let you know how I made out. Thanks again
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I dunno about that... as I said above... I used my version 6.0 and it cloned no problem.
But did it restore it as ntfs or did it restore it as fat32?
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Old 05-22-2003, 11:29 AM   #20
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Hmmm...seems like cloning not an exact science anymore..
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I know my NG2001 version knows what NTFS is but for some reason it just didn't like my winXP load, maybe cause I have 64k cluster size.....
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But did it restore it as ntfs or did it restore it as fat32?
NTFS.... I had quite a job actually.... I was replacing 2x 20Gb IDE and 1x 18Gb SCSI with a single 120Gb IDE..... I pre-partitioned the drive the way I wanted to, then cloned the C to the first partition on the 120, then the second partiton on the first drive to the second partition on the 120. When I was done, I removed the 20 and installed the 120 in its place. Everything booted normally. I then just copy/pasted the remaining drive letters. The entire system was NTFS.
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Old 05-23-2003, 10:31 AM   #23
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I then just copy/pasted the remaining drive letters. [/B]
Hey Hal,can you elaborate on this?
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