I am new to this forum. Just purchased a Ghost 15. I saw Brian K's "Ghost 15 options for recovery" dated 04-02-2010, which posts details on recovery options using Ghost 15. Listed options depend on whether SRP is present or not, but what is this acronym?
It is the System Reserved Partition which contains the booting files and is the Active partition. It is not present in all Win7 installs. Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management and we'll let you know where you stand. Right click Computer, Manage, Disk Management.
It's my grandma's friend's XP Home desktop with 512 MB RAM and a 9 GB IDE Fujitsu HD. I want to clone the existing HD to a 40 GB IDE Western Digital disk. I want to use Image/Restore method because a few years ago I used Ghost to upgrade my laptop hard disk. Should be relatively easy but I am going to read the manual a few times, as well as referring to advices from you and colleagues in this forum, just to make sure the process works.
Here's the screen shot of her Disk Management window:
The K: drive is external. When I am done with backing up and restoring, I will install it in the PC to replace the existing drive so it will become internal. I am using an external Nextstar USB-to-IDE/SATA adapter to facilitate disk copying, file transfer, etc. and since it has many connectors for hard disks and compact flash drives, the drive lettering jumps to K: and so on so forth. The CD drive is D:
I'm confused. You plan to create an image of WinXP on the 40 GB drive. Then you will install the 40 GB drive internally? But that won't work to give you a bootable OS. Do I misunderstand your plan?
Or do you mean Copy Drive rather than Image/Restore?
When I tried the "copy drive" using the IDE adaptor it wouldn't boot up, so I had to hook the target drive on the motherboard with only the source drive connected.
Only then was I able to "Clone" the target drive (a Drive to Drive copy).
1. You said in one of the posts that "Copy Drive" only copies partitions rather than the whole drives;
2. My memory may fail but some years ago I was using Norton Ghost 12 to back up my laptop hard disk onto a larger disk, then installed the new disk in the laptop. When I rebooted the laptop and pointed to the saved image I was able to recover my computer. This is all I can remember now, and this could be wrong. I am looking for the old notes I wrote after that exercise. In any case, I will be reading Ghost 15 manual as well as the 08-14-2011 post from DStain, entitled "Using Norton Ghost 15 to restore to a new hard drive".
How did you connect the source drive? Did you connect it as the slave drive to the motherboard (target drive as master), or did you connect it to the external USB drive?
For image/restore you will need 3 HDs. Copy Drive is what you should be considering.
Install the 40 GB HD internally as a slave. From Disk Management delete the partition on the 40 GB HD as you want unallocated space. Run Ghost Copy Drive using these options...
Check source for file system errors Check destination for file system errors Resize drive to fill unallocated space 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
When it has completed, shutdown the computer. Remove the old HD from the computer. Essential to do this. Setup the 40 GB HD as the master (end IDE cable plug and jumpers). Power on and WinXP will boot.
Thank you for your detailed step-by-step instruction, as I will follow it later. Just one more thing, I guess I won't need the Ghost disk after removing the original drive and rebooting into the new drive without using Ghost CD. Could you confirm this for me? I am requesting this because the lady's computer is so ancient that its Award BIOS does not allow or has no option to boot from CD/DVD drives.
How did you connect the source drive? Did you connect it as the slave drive to the motherboard (target drive as master), or did you connect it to the external USB drive?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
I left the source drive as the master and the target drive as the slave.
There are two IDE channels and I used the primary channel for the copy drive and the optical drive on the secondary channel.
In this exercise though I was using Ghost 2003 The target drive must be prepared fist to create the unallocated space as you are now well aware.
"Copy Drive" was "successful". Followed your instructions to a tee. However, when I rebooted the new drive, Windows XP boots at first and a bunch of small quares were moving from left to right on screen. Then all I see is a static Windows XP screen, i.e. two narrow blue bands on top and bottom, and a large part with "Windows XP" in the middle.
I urgently need help! Since the old lady seems to have lost her Windows XP installation disk, how can I do a repair installation of Windows? I am lost! Don't know what to do next!