After all the hype recently about copy drive or cloning I thought I would experiment again and clone a drive with Ghost 15.
I prepared my existing cloned drive (160 GB) and ran a very latest backup with G15 onto my external drive.
My primary drive (source) is a 160 GB Sata 2 divided into 4 equal partitions running the following O/S :- XP Pro, Win Vista, Win 8 and Win 7. a multi boot machine.
I stuck to the system that I cloned the drive previously with Ghost 12 and to cut a long story short the clone failed.
The only O/S that worked was XP Pro and the other three failed to get past preparing the desktop and hung for ages.
I have tried all ways to get it to work without success and can now fully understand Ghost 15 users getting frustrated.
I would think that a single partition or drive wouldn't be a problem but a multi boot is a no go with G15.
I had to revert back to my tried and trusted Ghost 12 to produce a clone again that works ok, yes there are extra entries in the boot menu that needed deleting but I have posted this thread on the cloned drive.
Did you do Copy Drive with both HDs in your computer?
I recall you and I did tests using Ghost 15 with your 4 OS setup. There was a BCD issue and two OS didn't boot. Ghost 12 didn't have this problem.
Brian,
No mate,
but you are right we did do some tests but I thought that I would have another go at it.
I followed the rules rigidly and did an "Image-Transfer", I tried twice to get it to work with G15 and in both cases Vista, Win 7 and Win 8 would run but hung on preparing the desktop. Ghost 12 is perfect, so easy to do, no need to use the edit function and I noticed when G15 was transferring the image it ran a format as well and there were no phantom drives to delete, weird.
Yes you are right, my fault, my apologies, I should have titled it Image-restore.
I thought about it later on and what I will do this afternoon is a "Drive Copy" with Ghost 15 and let you know.
If that fails I will do a similar exercise with Ghost 12.
I know that your preference is an image-restore and I find that method easy with G12, but more complicated with G15 what with the phantom drive and the edit function.
I will get back to you later on with exactly the options I used.
Surely if one runs a full set of images from the source drive and then restores the sv2i to a new blank drive it should correctly recreate everthing as it was?
We don't recommend using the .sv2i at all. For example, if you restore the SRP and Win7 images to a blank HD using the .sv2i, Ghost restores them in reverse order. The SRP becomes the second partition and Win7 doesn't boot. Ghost 15 works fine if you restore the images individually. But not with Deric's setup.
Bad news I am afraid, the "Copy My Hard Drive" went ok,ticked all the right boxes etc. but when I shut the pc down and took out the primary drive just leaving the target drive in place it had completely messed up the Windows boot manager,there were 3 extra entries "Windows Vista / Windows server 2008 / Windows7.
I did manage to boot XP and Vista but Win 7 showed a message on a light blue screen "This version of Windows is not genuine" build 7601.
I swapped over the drives and left out the target drive and boot manager was still all messed up.
There were also 2 entries for XP, I think one was Win 2003. I had no option but to reimage with last Saturday's G12 backup so that I can run a "Copy my hard drive" with Ghost 12.
I both cases with a multi boot Ghost 15 failed again.For other users benefit who are interested in this thread my multi boot has a single drive with 4 equal partitions and all partitions are what I call simple basic partitions containing O/Ss, no MRP or SRP or recovery partitions.
I am now going to do a "Copy My Hard Drive" with Ghost 12 purely to prove a point, will get back to you in a couple of hours with the results.
Just managed to get back up and running from 7:00pm, the "Copy My Hard Drive" failed completely with Ghost 12.
I couldn't boot at all both when I disconnected the primary drive and left the target drive on it's own and when I swapped over back to the primary drive and disconnected the the target drive.
Again it messed up Windows boot manager, asking to insert the installation disk but I couldn't boot into any O/S to do a repair, completely messed up.
Again I had no alternative than to reimage with G12 backups.
I must admit I do not understand how Microsoft boot manager works all I know is when things are working properly boot manager is ok.
The last 3 partitions are not primaries, you should not be selecting that option.
I also don't think you want to be restoring the disk signature on the last 3
Dave
Dave,
I followed it to the letter,the last 3 partitions were logicals, I can't see where you get "Primaries" from on disk 0 and bear in mind that pic is of my primary drive and disk 1 my secondary drive.They are the only two drives I run on this multi boot machine.
4 times I have tried it now, the only way I can get a good "Clone" is by the image/restore method with G12.
At the moment my emergency cloned drive won't work due to the last exercise and as a result I will do a Image/Restore or Image/ Transfer as I like to call it with Ghost 12.
After all that practice I should be ticking all the right boxes, I did this exercise again because I thought G15 would do a drive copy and a image/restore on my multi boot machine but it won't.
When my last attempt is complete later on this afternoon I will post and let you know.
Can you do a test for me? When you next restore your images with Ghost 12, restore WinXP as usual. The next image you restore is Vista. Can you restore it as a primary partition instead of a logical partition. I'm interested to hear if it boots. If it boots, restore the final two as primary as well. Do they boot?
Can you do a test for me? When you next restore your images with Ghost 12, restore WinXP as usual. The next image you restore is Vista. Can you restore it as a primary partition instead of a logical partition. I'm interested to hear if it boots. If it boots, restore the final two as primary as well. Do they boot?
You are allowed 4 primary partitions on a HD.
Brian,
Yes I will do it for you but if I remember rightly I did all primaries last year and it failed.
So just to be clear what you want me to do is image XP (primary), then Vista (primary) and try a boot before I do the other two.
The "copy drive" option failed again with Ghost 15 on the multi boot machine.
The copy went well including shrinking the partitions so that I could use a smaller available drive (160 - 120).
There were no errors at all throughout the whole operation.
Taking the source drive out and booting with the target drive resulted in only Vista booting up to give a working computer.
Xp Pro failed completely,( probably needed the focus to boot with the repair disk), Win7(1) and Win7(2) booted eventually to a light blue screen and No apps at all working, so again I say that G15 is a failure on a multi boot.To get both Win7s to show a screen I used the Win7 repair disk once only but it failed.
I have sent you another email with a couple of attachments containing my notes.
The next and final test is to try a image/restore with the same smaller drive but this time 1 primary and 3 logical partitions.
Image / restore failed again, this time though XP and Vista booted ok but Win7 booted but not a working screen no apps worked, also logical partition was greyed out in each case.
Because I used a 120 gig drive there was no option to down size each partition ( I did it in disk management with Drive Copy) so I was only able to fit 3 partitions on the target drive.
I suppose the answer is to shrink the source drive but really it should be available in Ghost.
Again I would think G15 drive copy and image/restore would work on a single boot but like I said before not on a multi boot.
