Cloning a drive

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive I ran out of space on my existing drive & installed a
larger drive that I want to make the master & use the
orginal drive as a slave (backup) drive. I was planing
on using Ghost 2002 to clone the original drive to the
new larger drive, but have had no success. The Ghost
program will not allow me to go any further after making
a startup floppy disk.

I understand the licensing problem of having 2 copies of
XP on the same computer, but how do I accomplish what I
want to do?

Windows XP352

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive You cann clone your partition under Windows environment. You have to clone
your existing partition to an Ghost image using the startup floppy disk
created with Ghost.

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MS MVP (IE/OE)

"Tony" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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>I ran out of space on my existing drive & installed a
> larger drive that I want to make the master & use the
> orginal drive as a slave (backup) drive. I was planing
> on using Ghost 2002 to clone the original drive to the
> new larger drive, but have had no success. The Ghost
> program will not allow me to go any further after making
> a startup floppy disk.
>
> I understand the licensing problem of having 2 copies of
> XP on the same computer, but how do I accomplish what I
> want to do?

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive Are you sure that your using Ghost correctly? You should have both the hard
drives connected to the machine. The bios set to auto detect the drives at
boot up. Boot the system from the floppy disk that Ghost created for you.
You should get a menu after booting from the disk that will allow you to
pick the source and destination drive to be cloned.
After the drive is cloned and you have verified this by starting the system
with just that hard drive, you can reconnect the old drive as a slave drive
restart the system then format it after Windows starts. You will then have a
blank drive to store data on or install programs on.

HTH

"Tony" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> I ran out of space on my existing drive & installed a
> larger drive that I want to make the master & use the
> orginal drive as a slave (backup) drive. I was planing
> on using Ghost 2002 to clone the original drive to the
> new larger drive, but have had no success. The Ghost
> program will not allow me to go any further after making
> a startup floppy disk.
>
> I understand the licensing problem of having 2 copies of
> XP on the same computer, but how do I accomplish what I
> want to do?

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive Sounds like alot of useless software.
To clone or copy a drive use xcopy already installed on xp,you need to R.click
the drive in my computer,say D: drive,format,full,and select display summary
and copy system files.When its formatted go to run,type:
XCOPY C: \*.* D: \ /c/h/e/k/r/ Click ok.When the DOS window opens and
are asked for overwriting select yes for all each time.When its thru youre
done,shutdown,remove C: and change D: jumper to master. Works in xp....

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive Xcopy will not make a bootable copy of a hard drive. That's what the poster
is after.

"Andrew E" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> Sounds like alot of useless software.
> To clone or copy a drive use xcopy already installed on xp,you need to
R.click
> the drive in my computer,say D: drive,format,full,and select display
summary
> and copy system files.When its formatted go to run,type:
> XCOPY C: \*.* D: \ /c/h/e/k/r/ Click ok.When the DOS window opens and
> are asked for overwriting select yes for all each time.When its thru
youre
> done,shutdown,remove C: and change D: jumper to master. Works in xp....

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive XCOPY C: \*.* D: \ /c/h/e/k/r/
believe it or not the xcopy command with those parameters will make a
bootable copy

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Lambert & Samborski Design
http://www.lamsam.com

"NoSpam" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> Xcopy will not make a bootable copy of a hard drive. That's what the
poster
> is after.
>
>
> "Andrew E" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
> news:EMail@HideDomain.com...
> > Sounds like alot of useless software.
> > To clone or copy a drive use xcopy already installed on xp,you need to
> R.click
> > the drive in my computer,say D: drive,format,full,and select display
> summary
> > and copy system files.When its formatted go to run,type:
> > XCOPY C: \*.* D: \ /c/h/e/k/r/ Click ok.When the DOS window opens and
> > are asked for overwriting select yes for all each time.When its thru
> youre
> > done,shutdown,remove C: and change D: jumper to master. Works in xp....
>
>

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive Tony wrote:

>I ran out of space on my existing drive & installed a
>larger drive that I want to make the master & use the
>orginal drive as a slave (backup) drive. I was planing
>on using Ghost 2002 to clone the original drive to the
>new larger drive, but have had no success. The Ghost
>program will not allow me to go any further after making
>a startup floppy disk.

What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) and
Paste.

You may then want to add a second partition on the drive (use XP Disk
Management) or to resize the present one, using the Resize button

Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. EMail@HideDomain.com (remove the D8 bit)

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive Hi Alex & Happy New Year.
Will this allow me to keep all the info on the old drive intact? What I
want to do is use my new 80GB drive as the replacement and take my old 20GB
drive and put it away somewhere as an emergency backup. That way if I ever
have a major foul-up I can just stick the old drive in and have my PC back
to where it was.
Also, I see it allows conversion from FAT32 to NTFS. When I moved from Win
Me to XP Home on my daughter's PC, I never changed from FAT32 to NTFS. I
think I want to do so now to gain the advantages of the NT File System.
From the BootIT page, it appears to be one of the features. Do you know
anything about that part?

Thanks in advance and regards,
Morey G.
"Alex Nichol" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> Tony wrote:
>
> >I ran out of space on my existing drive & installed a
> >larger drive that I want to make the master & use the
> >orginal drive as a slave (backup) drive. I was planing
> >on using Ghost 2002 to clone the original drive to the
> >new larger drive, but have had no success. The Ghost
> >program will not allow me to go any further after making
> >a startup floppy disk.
>
> What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware -
> 30 day full functional trial)
>
> Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
> make a boot floppy.
>
> With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
> Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
> Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) and
> Paste.
>
> You may then want to add a second partition on the drive (use XP Disk
> Management) or to resize the present one, using the Resize button
>
> Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
> partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
> Apply.
>
> Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
> reboot into XP.
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. EMail@HideDomain.com (remove the D8 bit)

Windows XP >> Cloning a drive MG. wrote:

>Hi Alex & Happy New Year.
>Will this allow me to keep all the info on the old drive intact? What I
>want to do is use my new 80GB drive as the replacement and take my old 20GB
>drive and put it away somewhere as an emergency backup. That way if I ever
>have a major foul-up I can just stick the old drive in and have my PC back
>to where it was.

That will leave the contents of your old drive entirely untouched

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. EMail@HideDomain.com (remove the D8 bit)