Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I tried several times, playing around with the settings in Ghost
(largely guessing, as the "help" file is not very helpful and the dead
tree manual which came in the box even less), but never got any better
results than that: a reportedly successful copy to the new drive, but
the new drive will not boot up when it is installed as drive 0 and the
old drive is removed. That's when I started asking for help.
So, any ideas?
I'm assuming that you have been using the Windows version of Ghost (in
which case your experience is fairly typical). If you can create a DOS
boot disk with CD-ROM drivers, that is the ideal. Start the computer in
DOS, and run the DOS version of Ghost from the CD, and choose disk to
disk copy. If you can't get the CD to work in DOS, it is possible to
copy the ghost.exe file to the boot disk and run it from there. This
will normally solve the problem. There is still a full menu interface,
you don't need all the command line switches, but there's no mouse. (of
course, the command line switches can do the whole thing if that's your
preference, and that's how we use it because we use it so routinely).
Failing that, I think that Partition Magic is going to be your best bet
from here on in. Ghost *should* have done the right thing - your theory
sounds right, but the 500Gb drives are a new wrinkle that I havent'
dealt with before. and Ghost may have trouble with them. We had some
trouble going from 40Gb drives to 120Gb drives, and ended up having 30Gb
partitions on both (because they are student computers with no data at
all, the remaining 90Gb is just wasted, as is most of the 30Gb...).
Because we didn't want or need the space, we didn't put much effort into
solving the problem.
Give me a yell if you need any specifics, I've kept this "big picture"
coz you sound like you know your way around a PC, but I can give you
specific instructions if you want (and a generic CD-ROM driver if it
will help).
Cheers
Russell C.
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