Ghost 14: Copy Drive Wizard Error: Cannot Complete Copying... Set Active is not supported

I have a laptop. I am trying to copy a 40GB drive to a larger 120GB drive. I'm using a Sabrent USB to IDE cable to attached the new drive for use with Ghost 14. The new drive is formated and shows up as Drive E: When I go to use Ghost to do a disc copy and select "set drive active (boot OS) I get the following error message:

 

Errors:

EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of C:\

EEerror E0BB0024: Set Active is not supported 

 

I realize I can only have one drive active at one time - but how can I make the new drive bootable?  

I have a laptop. I am trying to copy a 40GB drive to a larger 120GB drive. I'm using a Sabrent USB to IDE cable to attached the new drive for use with Ghost 14. The new drive is formated and shows up as Drive E: When I go to use Ghost to do a disc copy and select "set drive active (boot OS) I get the following error message:

 

Errors:

EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of C:\

EEerror E0BB0024: Set Active is not supported 

 

I realize I can only have one drive active at one time - but how can I make the new drive bootable?  

Thanks for the great response. I have a question. How do I ensure that I am copying to "unallocated" space on the new drive? How do I make sure the partition is not "formated". Assume that I did format and did make the copy incorrectly before with MBR. What do I need to do to prepare the drive per your suggestion below the correct way?

 

Thanks. 

To make the drive unallocated, you can use Disk Management softwares(such as PartitionMagic) or the Windows Disk Management which is inbuilt.

 

To use Windows disk management, do the following:

 

--Click Start > Run

--Type diskmgmt.msc and click OK.

Disk Management shows the disks connected and the partitions.

--Right-click the partition on the destination disk and select Delete.

--Delete all the partitions on the destination drive.

 

--Vinod

When I follow your instructions under Widows XP, I see the drive. However, right click doesn't give me any options such as "delete" - tho I see that for other drives on the system. 

 

My drive in question says "Healthy GPT Protective Partition". 

 

When I use Partition Magic 8, it shows a 2GB "local disk" partition. The type is "EE" 

 

Is this the partition that I should delete? 

 

Using XP currently for diagnostics, tho the drive that I will copy from will be Vista when all is ready.

From the description Partition Magic provides, the 2 GB partition might be the hidden recovery partition. When you check the status of your destination drive in Partition Magic or Windows Disk Management, do you see any other Partition on the same disk apart from the 2 GB partition?

 

If not, the remaining space on the disk must be already unallocated. If you do not want the recovery partition, you can delete it using Partition Magic to unallocate the entire disk.

 

You can perform Copy Drive to the unallocated space. When you select the destination drive in the Copy Drive wizard, unallocated space is listed as  "*\ Unallocated".

 

--Vinod

In PM 8.0, I execute the Delete command and get an error: # 631  "Can't execute the operation. Can't find the correct partition."

 

It also shows up as Yellow "Other" when the drive was formated at NTFS. I am able to set the drive as ACTIVE. 

 

But I am not able to delete this partition. 

Is there a way in DOS or VISTA to return this drive to a “clean slate”? What are the commands for that? 


I’ll start over. 

I’m thinking about returning Ghost 14 for money back. There doesn’t seem to be a way to upgrade your HD on a laptop running VISTA because there is no Partition Magic support on VISTA.

Hi jimjarvie,

 

Sorry for replying late..

 

jimjarvie, GPT Protective partitions are only supported in Vista. XP does not support it. Norton Ghost also doesn't support it. To delete this partition, please follow the steps below:

 

1. Go to DOS command line (click on "Start Menu", then "Run", type in "cmd" in textbox, and hit "OK")

    * Type in "DiskPart" in command line.
    * Type in "list disk" in command line to show all disks in this machine.
    * Use "select" to set the focus to the specified partition, for example "select disk 1".
    * Use "clean" command to remove GPT disk from the current in-focus disk by zeroing sectors.

2. Go back to Disk Management, you can see the disk is "unallocated" now.

 

This should work.

 

I would suggest you to read this discussion thread on one of the forums with similar issue:

 

http://www.valhalla.net.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12144&p=133172

 

--Vinod

I am experiencing the same problem and I am very irritated.  Here is my scenario:

 

1) Old hard drive on my laptop is 150GB and I am replacing it

2) New drive is 320GB (unallocated) and I am installing it

3) Trying to copy existing drive to external hard drive so I can copy it to my new hard drive.  In order to do a copy, I unallocate the external and execute a copy (using MBR option).

4) Reboot using ghost cd

 

There is NO copy option there!  Only an option to restore.   What do I do??  Do I replace my existing HD and try to make the new drive the active drive?  If so, how do I do that??

 

Thanks,

Brian

Here is an update as I tried something else.

 

1) I created a recovery point on a formated external USB hard drive.

2) I installed the new drive and booted into the Ghost recovery disc.

3) I installed the recovery point onto the newly installed and unallocated hard drive.

 

Rebooted to nothing as the drive is not bootable.  I rebooted into the ghost cd and ran DiskPart from a command prompt.  I set the partition to active and viewed the properties of the drive.  It read bootable but it really isn't as each time I reboot, it always request I insert a bootable. disk.

 

Thoughts?  It really should not be this difficult.

 

Thanks,

Brian Frazier

Hi BrianKF,

 

Copy Drive and backup-restore are completely different processes. In Copy Drive, you can create an exact copy (clone) of your hard drive. This process can be performed on an Internal Drive only in Windows. 

 

Using Norton Ghost, you can create backups in Windows and can restore them by booting from the Recovery Disk. 

 

In your second post, you have mentioned that you are unable to boot from the drive after restoring a backup image of your old drive. While restoring the backup, please select the options "Restore MBR", "Set Drive Active" and "Primary Drive". This should work and you will be able to boot the computer.

 

--Vinod

So, while creating the image, do I select the MBR option?  Better yep, so nothing is omitted, what options should I select when creating the image and then resoring?

 

I will give this a shot later with my fingers crossed and thanks for the reply.

I think you’re still talking about two different things.  When you set up a backup, you won’t have a “copy MBR” option.  The backup as set up is by partition.  You’ll see the “Copy MBR” option when doing the Drive Copy.  You cannot perform a Drive Copy to an external drive.  For Restore, you will want to restore the MBR and set drive to active. 

I was able to perform a drive copy to the external drive but not able to copy the files after rebooting.  If you say I can’t, perhaps there is a bug in the software because I was able to do so.  I realize this process wsa not correct for what I was trying to do.  I did try the creation of a restore point and restoring the image.  That worked.  However, after booting to the rescue disk, I have NO way of choosing these otions (choosing the MRB and set active option).  For some reason, this just it just worked.

When I said you can't, I meant that the complete process will not work (that's the copy and then booting from the drive). 

 

When restoring an image, you shouldn't have to change the MBR or active settings.  The fact that you didn't see it isn't a problem.

 

Cool.  At least I know it is working as it is supposed to.  I just do not understand why it took sooooooo many tries to get it to work.  I did that restore attempt at least 8 times over 6 days.

Unknown.  If you ever get an error, I’d make sure you write it down (Ghost will have 2 or more errors linked together with an error code usually starting with E and a message).  Be sure to note both the error and the message details (may need to click on “more information” in the Error dialog.