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Cloning Partitions
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| dv_chevy 2004-08-23, 10:20 pm |
| Hi there, I can clone a single partition to another drive with a single partition, and I can clone a partition from a drive with multiple partitions to a drive with a single partition. The problem is cloning to a drive with two or more partitions. I am running XP Pro. It starts booting up then stops just before the welcome screen. I am not multibooting (yet) Just triing to get that clone to work on the drive with more than one partition. I have made the partition active,tried fixboot,and fixmbr.Nothing is working.
Anyone know how to get around this?
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| sandy7000 2004-08-23, 11:30 pm |
| Which cloning software are you using?
Are you getting an "ntldr" error?
I've run into the cloning issues several times with both Ghost & ImageCast.
Here's a link:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;320397
With ImageCast, not wiping the destination drive clean caused a corrupt vmm32.vxd structure (w/ Win98).
I've seen it in Ghosting XP after I had taken Partition Manager & changed the size of the partitions in NTFS.
Might as well try Partition Manager (freeware). It can work as a diagnostic tool to tell you if the addresses are out of range.
I'm not fully sure why your issue is happening. I'm not the final word as I don't have anything more than lab experience for you. Cool that you're experimenting though.
Hopefully, this will give you a clue to head in a direction. Check the cloning software's website. They sometimes can give you more ideas. | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-08-24, 1:35 am |
| I've used Ghost and ImageCast as well.
It depends on the options you've chosen when you deploy the image to a new machine.
Depending on what cloning software you're using, look at the options when creating the image. | |
| sandy7000 2004-08-24, 6:51 pm |
| My mind has been chewing on this on & off all day..guess that makes me an official computer geek now.
Try to boot off an XP floppy..here's the link:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;EN-US;305595
A (VERY) wild guess on my part is an issue with boot.ini. It may not know which partition to go to.
dv_chevy, are you able to give us more info? | |
| dv_chevy 2004-08-24, 11:22 pm |
| Thanks for your reply. I am using ghost 2003
I have tried booting from a floppy, it didnt work.I have looked through all the options in ghost. I think everything must be set right if I can succesfully clone to a single partitioned drive. ( I think ).
I will have to try the software you mentioned, that might help. | |
| dv_chevy 2004-08-24, 11:49 pm |
| I have also used sysprep. That didnt help either. Looking into Partition Manager I see that there are two of them. There is Paragon Partition Manager, and Ranish Partition Manager. I suppose you were meaning Ranish sinse it seems to be free where as Paragon doesnt.
I think I will wait to hear back from you on this one so that I am not installing the wrong one.
Have you succesfully cloned onto a drive with more than one partition?
I cant figure this, Im not dual booting I am just triing to get it to work on the first partition of a drive with 2 partitions.
Thank you | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-08-25, 1:00 am |
| I forgot where the options are located, but you should have the options of resizing your image to fit the new hard drive and to re-image only one partition.
You can also try this. It came from another post:
You can boot to the XP cd and when you see the Welcome to setup press the letter R
You will get a dos prompt
Then type "chkdsk /p" without the quotes and hit enter
When that is done type "fixboot" and hit enter
"Y" and enter at the prompt
Then type "exit" and hit enter
The system will now reboot into Windows
If for some reason that don't work for you, you can boot to the recovery console like above and...
Type "chkdsk /r" then enter
When done type "exit" and hit enter.
This will take longer, but the system should boot back into Windows. | |
| sandy7000 2004-08-25, 12:07 pm |
| George's suggestions once again are excellent!
I realized afterwards I forgot to tell you it was Ranish Partition Mgr. I use mine not only for partitioning, but also for giving me a general idea of what's going on if I can't boot into the os.
The link to the XP floppy was because it included boot.ini instructions also. I'm still not fully sure what happened in your ghost image.
I was just more curious as to what got messed up: boot.ini or another file.
Thanks for sharing with us! |
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