-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22 Feb 2006 at 8:21, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: Date sent: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:21:11 -0800 From: "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant@xxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases (E-mail)" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: M$ question [OFF TOPIC] Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > > 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. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC Seti@Home Total Credits 457981.077408 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 -- QDPGP 2.61c Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBQ/wssizGQcr/2AKZEQJuWwCeMSA+aEdwUv4hPDQWj9/oMHhu9XwAn3Ta p1E70+hYvehpkETQ1ikT8TfC =C9pa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
