I have a HP computer that has a HP_Recovery D: drive. After I ran the Norton "Disk Copy" to move everything to a larger disk the destination drive won't boot. The source drive still has the system (boot. page file,crash dump) files. I am using Windows 7 64-bit. I am using Ghost 15.0.1.36526. Please advise. I tried to include a screenshot of disk manager but it won't accept the jpeg file.
Thanks
I did exactly what your instructions said. I installed and created the new drive with unallocated space and selected the ticks like you instructeed. When I try and boot it won't and just shows a blinking curser in the upper left hand corner. I have them both connected so you can see what I have.
Only you can see the image until it is approved. It's usually a lot quicker but some weekends seem to take forever.
While we are waiting, is this a laptop or desktop?
How was the new drive attached to the system for the disk copy, internally or through a USB?
A lot of HP laptops use a nonstandard 240 head alignment for hard drives and that geometry cannot be duplicated over USB because USB cannot provide direct BIOS support.
Go into the Ghost\Utilities folder and run partinfo.exe
It will create a file called partinfo.txt in the same folder.
Please attach that text file using the browse button under the box you type the reply into.
We won't need to wait to see that attachment.
Dave
The destination drive is a WD2002FAEX - 2TB internal drive. There is no Utility folder in Ghost 15. The problem is that Ghost won't copy the MBR. It just copies one partition at a time. I removed the partition from the previous copy and then copied the system partition. It named it F volume so I removed the F and then copied the C partition again. Now when I boot up is says that it doesn't see the boot loader. Even though I selected it to copy the MBR every time it looks like it doesn't do it. What are the MBR files named in Windows 7? Notice in the parenthesis on Disk 0 that in the System partition the "System, Active" aren't there and in the OS (F:) that the "Boot, Page File, Crash Dump" files aren't there.
lizard63,
Delete the partition on the new HD. Put a tick in Show Hidden Drives (Ghost 15) and then you will be able to see the SRP. Copy the first two partitions, one at a time.
For the SRP
Check source for file system errors
Check destination for file system errors
Set drive active (for booting OS)
DON'T SELECT Disable SmartSector copying
DON'T SELECT Ignore bad sectors during copy
Copy MBR
Destination partition type : Primary
Drive letter : None
For Win 7....
Check source for file system errors
Check destination for file system errors
TIck Resize drive to fill unallocated space
DON'T SELECT Disable SmartSector copying
DON'T SELECT Ignore bad sectors during copy
Destination partition type : Primary
Drive letter : None
When complete, remove the old HD from the computer. Boot the new HD.
Deleted.
I thought your enter key was broken for a while.
The instructions that I gave in message 2 were for "Drive Copy" which is what lizard63 tried to do.
I also suggested to run a One Time Backup of C: including all partitions on the drive.
All he needs to do is highlight all partitions on C: and Ghost will copy them.
Run the recovery point into a new folder on the destination drive and use that to run the image onto the 2TB drive.
Note, there is No need to backup one at a time, I use the above method all the time with no failures.
As Brian says he can then run each partition transferring one at a time onto the target drive.
If lizard63 reads this post Here all he needs to do is follow the instructions and repeat for each partition.
He will need to run the "Edit" function each time, see Red's instructions Here
Follow the instructions to the letter and there shouldn't be a problem.
Change the boot sequence in the bios and that should be it.
Deric
After reading your instructions it all made sense. I saw what I was doing wrong. I had to do the partitions one at a time and not give them volume letters and only the MRB for the system partition. Thanks for all your help! Everything works fine. Thanks to all the others too!
Lizard63
DStain wrote:All he needs to do is highlight all partitions on C: and Ghost will copy them.
Deric,
There is only one C: drive. But the old HD does contain three partitions. The old HD is not the C:
There is no C: drive when the computer is turned off as the booted OS assigns the drive letters. If you boot from a DOS flash drive the Win 7 partition will probably be D: drive.
Ok Brian, I take you're point, the principal is the same though as you can see from message 10, all is well.
Deric
I have a HP computer that has a HP_Recovery D: drive. After I ran the Norton "Disk Copy" to move everything to a larger disk the destination drive won't boot. The source drive still has the system (boot. page file,crash dump) files. I am using Windows 7 64-bit. I am using Ghost 15.0.1.36526. Please advise. I tried to include a screenshot of disk manager but it won't accept the jpeg file.
Thanks
