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More info?)
Sorry! I got my imaging programs mixed up. The Drive Image 2002 version is
on the Drive Image 7 CD, not the Ghost 9 CD.
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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
🙂
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23rUI$g9WFHA.4032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Bill,
>
> Clear the cobwebs from your head and learn about disk imaging anew. You
> have many misconceptions.
>
> A clone is just that. After you make the clone you disconnect it from the
> connecting cables. Then you take the cables that are attached to your main
> hard drive (source of clone) and connect them to your cloned hard drive.
> Now boot up. That way the cloned Windows XP operating system is in the
> same relative physical position as the original (drive and partition wise)
>
> I have told you this before - a few times I think. Windows XP is Drive and
> Partition sensitive. When you install Windows XP on Drive 0, Partition 0
> you can not clone the drive to Drive 1, Partition 0 and expect it to boot
> or run properly - no matter what you chose in the bios.
>
> What you are trying to do, the way you are doing it, is called dual boot.
> For that you start from scratch and install the operating system on the
> second hard drive. This one you leave connected all the time.
>
> I have suggested before that you download the manual for Drive Image 2002
> (now available on the Ghost 9 CD) from the Symantec web site. Then read it
> and learn the basics. I think you are delving right into copying and
> cloning without knowing the rules of the road. Therefore you have been
> lost for the past 6 months.
>
> You seem no closer to success now than you were at your first post of many
> months ago!
>
> If you want I will send you the full documentation files from Drive Image
> 2002. The theory also applies to Ghost 2003.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
🙂
>
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
> <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:eXU%23sR9WFHA.1508@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Leythos wrote:
>>> In article <428A9C3E.40303@nospam.org>, billurie@nospam.org says...
>>>
>>>>I've been using Ghost 2003 to make a clone of my Master
>>>>Drive (XP/SP2) in Slave position on IDE cable, to use as
>>>>a live backup of the Master OS.
>>>>
>>>>Today I found these differences:
>>>>
>>>>Master was running 237 MB PF usage, when I booted to it
>>>>as the operating system, while the Clone ran only
>>>>100 MB PF usage when I booted to it as the active
>>>>operating system. (Both on the IDE cable at the same time).
>>>>
>>>>When running the Clone as the active OS, the Task Manager
>>>>column for the User Name was completely blank. Image
>>>>names are all there. (Both one the IDE cable at same time).
>>>>
>>>>The bottom toolbar was a pale gray on the Clone system,
>>>>instead of the light olive drab color as in the Master.
>>>>
>>>>When operating the Clone Syatem, booting to it in Slave
>>>>position, the Desktop Icons are all present and all
>>>>functional.
>>>>
>>>>I hope I've described it clearly, and would appreciate
>>>>any helpful (n.b.) comments on the above.
>>>
>>>
>>> You didn't do something correctly if you got those results.
>>
>> Yes, I can agree with that.......but what I did was so simple, I couldn't
>> have done it wrong. I loaded G2003, went to Clone, indicated
>> the source and where to put the copy, and let it run its course.
>>>
>>> If you do a DISK TO DISK COPY when you boot the second disk IS AN EXACT
>>> COPY and there is NOTHING missing. I've used G2003 for years, it always
>>> works when you clone a disk.
>>
>> Read on.
>>>
>>> It could be that you're leaving the disk connected and that something
>>> from the booting OS is messing with the second drive as I never ghost a
>>> disk to disk and leave the cloned disk in place.
>>
>> The master and clone have to both be in place to make the clone,
>> obviously. When I finish, I change the BIOS and let it boot
>> to the Clone (HDD-1). That's a simple straightforward dual-boot
>> operation, and has worked for years. The Clone then works as the
>> only Active OS.... The original Master is not running as an OS.
>>>
>>> Also, you are doing this from a DOS BOOT DISK, right?
>>>
>> I have no DOS BOOT DISK. I run Norton System Works, select GHOST,
>> select Advanced, select CLONE a disk and it runs.
>>
>> --
>> William B. Lurie
>
>
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