M$ question [OFF TOPIC]
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Wed Feb 22 19:19:45 UTC 2006
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On 22 Feb 2006 at 8:21, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Date sent: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:21:11 -0800
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> Sorry Folks,
>
> I know this is a fedora group (I have fedora systems too) and
> I hope some of you are tolerant of *gasp* windoes.
>
> I am desperate so I need to ask if anyone had any experience
> in trying to create/copy the entire M$ windows OS (win2k pro) from
> a main (old) drive to a new (bigger) drive successfully? I am trying
> to get off of an old drive, transfer the contents of the old to a newer
> drive and remove the old drive. I cannot get windows to boot off the
> new drive.
>
> Here is what I tried to do:
>
> 1) Use Maxtor's disk utility:
>
> a) Created 3 partitions; 36GB, 50GB, 50GB (from a 200GB HD) and
> was forced to keep total # of space used to <= 137GB due to
> the fact my old system does not support it (BIOS and MS 2000Pro)
>
> b) Used partition to partition copy
>
> Results: booting on the new drive worked however had a problem with
> missing pagefile.sys - and the fact that explorer will not run no matter
> what user you log in as. Followed everything to restore pagefile.sys
> but does not solve problem with user login (refuses to bring up the
> user's profile / run explorer - but otherwise allows login to work but
> limited context)
>
> 2) Used Norton's ghost 2002
>
> This works well however ghost does not recogize specific partition
> pre-created on the destination drive and wants to claim the whole
> drive. I was not given any choice to choose the specific destination
> partition desired and it wants a NEW parition EVERY TIME.
>
> 3) Used M$'s own backup/restore program (lite version of Backup Exec)
> and it pretty much useless while you are running in windows as most
> critical files are NOT backed up successfully due to open files. A restore
> does not create a full and perfect copy of the drive being backed up.
> Pretty useless so it seems.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated!
>
> Kind regards,
> Dan
>
In addition to some of the other comments already, what is the bios
configuration of the drive? I've worked with G4L (ghost for linux), and when
moving to a larger drive it is usually critical that the number of heads and
sectors per track need to be the same when moving to a larger drive. The
number of total tracks can be greater. I just imaged a 40GB drive to a
250GB drive, and then took the free space to make another partition
afterwards. I found that Norton would not recognize newer linux partitions,
so they could only be copied using the sector mode.
Is the Maxtor software loading a special program to get around the bios like
ontrack, which might be why ghost doesn't see the other partitions correctly?
Have you looked to see if a BIOS upgrade is available for the machine to
support the larger drivers.
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