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Good news! I got it working. The hd is now 80gb with 67gb free and 11gb used. I guess I must have checked 'resize drive to fill unallocated space' the first time and that made the hd 40gb like the one I was copying. XP is booting up and running.
As Hiro says "I did it!" :)
Thanks for this... I am about to do the same thing and I appreciate you working out all the kinks!
Rather than open up the chassis I am going to put my new HD in an enclosure that connects through the USB port and do the same thing. I hope it works like yours.
Just remember don't check the resize option or you will make an 80gb hd into a 40gb hd. :) I guess Ghost was smarter than me because on the 2nd copy my hard drive attempt that option was greyed out and couldn't be selected.
Hi all,
I would greatly appreciate some help! :)
I just bought an internal 80gb hard drive to replace an old 40gb.
I made the new 80gb hd the Slave and the 40gb hd was the Master.
I used the Copy My Hard Drive option in Ghost 14. The copy worked great! Except for one thing.
I checked these options:
check source for file system errors
check destination for file system errors
set drive active
copy mbr
destination partition type: primary
drive letter: F
I did not check these options (should I have?):
resize drive to fill unallocated space
disable smartsector copying
ignore bad sectors during copy
After the copy, the new 80gb hd is now a 40gb hd. When I view the Properties, it says capacity is 40gb.
I went into my computer, manage, and disk management and the drive shows 40gb unallocated.
Thinking I could fix this and get the full 80gb back, I formated the new drive through Disk Management. I don't think it worked.
So I made the 80gb hd the Slave drive and the 40 gb hd the Master again.
I used Copy my hard drive, again. This time in the options I was going to check the "resize drive to fill unallocated space" but I couldn't. It was greyed out.
I couldn't set the drive letter either.
I went ahead and did the copy. When the copy was finished I made the 80gb the Master and removed the 40gb.
When I boot the computer it freezes at the light blue WinXP screen.
What did I mess up? How do I completely erase the 80gb and start fresh?
Thank you!
Now that my C: partition from the old 40gb is on the new 80gb hd. Is there anything special I need to do to my new 80gb hd before I copy the d: partition (4.7gb, recovery partition) so I won't mess up the c: partition (c: partition is now 11gb used, 67gb free)? Do I even need to copy the recovery partition to the new drive since I updated to XP SP2?
Thanks!
The option "Resize drive to fill unallocated space" will be available only if the destination drive is not formatted i.e. unallocated. When you performed Copy drive first time, the drive become allocated.. Even though you formatted, the drive was still allocated and hence the option "Resize drive to fill unallocated space" was not available when you performed copy drive second time. If want to use that option, delete the partitions or drive in Disk Management instead of formatting before Copy Drive.
Thanks for the info on the resize option.
Can I use the Copy My Hard Drive on the D: partition on the old hd without messing up the C: partition on the new drive? The new 80gb hd has one partition (c:) that has 67gb free and 11gb used.
I don't want to copy the d: partition to the new drive and wipeout the c: partition.
Thanks!
You say in your post that you got Ghost 14 working but you didnāt say how. I have been struggling with this for 4 days and still get stuck on the blue windows XP screen with no login info.
When I got the xp screen and no login info. I put my old hd back as the Master drive and my new hd as the Slave. This way I could boot into xp and format the new drive. Be sure to delete the partition on the new drive and then format. After that I did the 'copy my hard drive' again. And it worked.
So you didnāt have to do anything weird like delete the Mounted_Drives registry entry or do an fdisk /MBR?
I did not do anything weird like you mentioned.
I put the old drive back as Master, new drive as Slave. Booted into win xp. Right clicked My computer, then Manage, then Disk Management. I then right-clicked on the partition on the new hd and selected Delete Partition. Then I right clicked and selected Format. After the formatting was done, I ran Ghost 14 and selected the Copy my hard drive. I used the options below:
I checked these options:
check source for file system errors
check destination for file system errors
set drive active
copy mbr
destination partition type: primary
drive letter: F
I did not check these options:
resize drive to fill unallocated space (I couldn't check this, it was greyed out, checking this would have turned my new 80gb into a 40gb hd again. I didn't want that.)
disable smartsector copying
ignore bad sectors during copy
After the copy was done, I took out my old drive and made my new 80gb the Master and booted, XP started and everything is fine.
I did forget to copy the D: (recovery partition) to the new HD. I hope I don't regret this in the future. I wonder if I could copy it later and not mess up my C: partition? Anybody know?
I followed the same exact steps and ended up stuck on the light blue Windows XP screen when I booted from the new drive just like before.
To keep this simple (I hope!), after getting the blue xp freeze on the new drive. I put the old drive in and made the new drive the slave. I deleted the partition on the new drive and formatted it. I checked and it was empty. Next I did ācopy my hard driveā. When that was done, I removed the old drive and made the new drive the master. I booted the computer and xp ran normally.
That is exactly what I did (twice) to no avail. The only difference is both of my hard drives are SATA II so there is no master/slave. My āmasterā is the drive in the 0 slot, slave in slot 1.
SATA drives? I guess I should have mentioned I only have eide drives. I have never used SATA drives, sorry. Maybe its time to call Tech Support?
Seems to me if you could wipe that drive clean then use copy my hard drive option again. It should work. Are you able to format it?
Yes, I deleted the partition, formatted it, executed the copy drive command, all of that several times with the same results.
I read another post that said I needed to delete all but the default registry key for Mounted_Devices and did that too. Didn't make any difference.
Look at this thread:
http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=other&message.id=3395&query.id=77581#M3395
Maybe it will help you some.
Sounds like you have to make sure the sata drive is unallocated before you do the copy my hd option. I dont know how youi do that with sata drives.
I think I figured out how to format the hard drive, delete partition then format. :)
I still need help on how to get ghost to keep the new hd at 80gb after 'copy my hard drive' option is used.
The option,'resize drive to fill unallocated space' is still greyed out. If I want to keep my 80gb hd 80gb, do I check this option? This option is a little confusing to me.
My 40gb has two partitions, C: and D:. Do I have to copy both separately? What options should I use when I copy the D: partition?
Everything would have been perfect the first time if the C: partition hadnt turned out to be 40gb.
Thanks!