Hello, hopefully you can help me. I am an experienced computer user but not with Ghost.
My brother has Ghost and says that he does a single drive copy of one drive to another, not individually as the Copy My Hard Disk does under tools. I looked into the Recovery CD/DVD to see if it was still possible to do that drive copy from the Recovery disc and no luck, it appears to relate only to a recovery and not starting a new backup.
I then went ahead and tried the following:
1. Leave new drive unallocated.
2. In ghost under tools, select copy my hard drive.
3. For the first drive which is suppose to be my boot, I selected make this partition active and copy MBR.
4. Seems to go fine.
5. Then for the rest d,e,f,g I do the same, but choose Logical Partition, do not select MBR and they seem to go fine as well.
6. Then when I reboot and use this drive to boot, I get the message of having to select which os I want to boot, Xp or 2003/xp. I have no clue where that 2003/xp came from since I am running xp sp2 and not sp3 or the media center or any other OS. I select either one, it runs like I have a 286 processor (meaning getting into windows). I suffer a Generic Host Error and essentially the system is too slow to even accomplish a simple task like starting up Ghost or Firefox.
So I am doing something wrong. What I am trying to do is:
I have a 500gb drive that I want to make an "exact" copy/clone to another 500gb to be used on same computer.
Both drives are the same in all specs, mftg, etc. the only difference of course is the serial number.
I want to be able to use either drive (prefer to use the clone and put the original or master away) so that if it goes
goes kaput, I have the other drive that I can get to and use.
I don't want to create a backup like you would do for backup of My Docs or picture files.
So any help on what I need to do to fix this issue will be greatly appreciated.
Tim