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Duxbury2002 wrote:Hi all
So, thought it was easy:
Buy Norton Ghost 14 - done
Buy a new larger hard drive - done
Open up PC to add new Hard Drive - done
Now the problem:
I have a new 500gig SATA drive to replace my 200gig one. I was hoping to plug the new one in and run the "copy my drive" section to it. My plan was to unplug a DVD drive and plug it in. I did this once before with an old drive to recover some data. But I can't do this as the connections are different. Now I am stuck. Is there a way to back up onto an external HD and replace the drive, boot using a Boot CD and install from the external HD?
Any suggestions would be great!!
Thanks
Phil
Phil,
What you're describing that you need to do is the basic imaging process. You install Ghost, set up a "My Computer" backup (make sure you are backing up the Boot record) to an external drive, let that complete, power down, pull the old drive, insert the new drive, put the Ghost CD in and boot off it, choose to restore a backup (set drive to active), reboot after the restore, and you're done. Be sure to test the Ghost CD to ensure you can see the internal drive as a restore location first, because you may need to make a customer recovery disk.
Hi Erik
Thanks for th advice. I have one more question. I brought the download of Ghost, so I don't have a CD. Any way round that?
Thanks
Phil
There should be a seperate file to download that is either a ZIP of an ISO or just an ISO file. You can use that to burn a CD of the recovery disk.
Hi Erik
I have now created my boot disk. I tested it and I can get to the recovery.
I am still not sure what to do? Is there an easy to follow guide for doing this?
Also, when I did the "copy my hard drive" in the tools section, it warned me that it would delete everything on my external drive when it created the backup. Is this correct as I have a folder on the External Drive that I can't delete.
Thanks
Phil
Since you’re using the external drive as a backup, you don’t want to choose the “copy my drive” function. That function is only to be used when you are using an internal disk to copy to before removing the old drive. You want to choose “Backup my Computer”. I recommend a glance through the user’s guide. It has pretty good instructions on how to make a backup and then a restore. You can download it from here.
Hi Erik
Thanks for your help so far. I am having real problems doing this. I am not an expert, but I can usually find my way round a PC. Would you be kind enough to point out what sections of the user manual I need to follow. I did as you suggested above, but I get an error and the back up fails. I also can't find how to restore this to a new drive when I remove the old one and plug in the new one. The new one is fresh out of the box, I don't need to format it do I?
Sorry to be a pain.
Thanks
Phil
Chapter 14 is how you would do a restore. You shouldn't have to format the new drive, but isn't a bad thing to do. What error did you get when you tried the backup? I would worry about getting a good backup first, before looking into the restore.
Hi Erik
I am still having problems. I created my boot disk and it works. I backed up my hard drive to my external USB hard drive, the way you suggested.
I installed my new hard drive and booted from the CD, I saw my C and D back up and restored them. It took about 7 hours to reload. I removed the boot CD and restarted my PC. After the normal screen that shoes for a couple of seconds, I just get a flashing line at the top left of the screen? What could be wrong??
Thanks
Phil
When you say "normal screen" do you mean the Windows screen? It's possible that you didn't set the drive to boot on restore. You can do that by booting to the recovery disk and then going into Utilities. You may need to edit the Boot.ini or "Change active Partition. Start with the "Change Active Partition" item as your system partition is more than likely not set to active.
Hi Erik
I'm in front of my PC. I did what you said but there are a couple of problems. Firstly when I click on change active partition" I get a message to say Error #5015 building the partition list on disk #1. Then I click ok to clear it and it cives me an option to select the boot partition from the ID's. My old C drive is ID 2 so I type 2 and press enter, this takes me back to the main utilities window. When I reboot, I still have the same problem. I only get the very first screen to say press f2 for set up etc then nothing. I don't get the windows logo.
I then tried to change the boot.ini but I am getting a message to say no boot.ini files were found. I am using Vista.
Help please??
Thanks
You don't want to set your old drive as active. After restoring the image to the new drive, did you remove the old? If not, do that now and then see what happens.
Hi Erik
Sorry, don't think I explained properly. After I backed up my old drive to my external USB drive, I removed the old hard drive and replaced it with my new on. I can see everything on the new one when I am in the recvery windows. The first error message comes up when I click on the change active partition tab, when i click ok it disapears. This is when I can see the new hard drive and images. The old one is not connected to the PC at all.
Thanks
Phil
There is an inconsistent sector count on the new drive. Was there a problem on the old drive that caused you to get the new drive? Try formatting the new drive and then restoring the image again.
HI
No, no problem really with the old drive. I just wanted to go up in size, it was 200gig and the new one is 500gig. Can I format it in the recovery mode?
Thanks
Phil
You can try running from the shell command prompt option. You won't be able to run fdisk first though.
Before you do that, go to the "analyze" tab in the recovery disk and run "check hard disks for errors".