>From: Michael D. Setzer II [mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:20 AM >To: Daniel B. Thurman; For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: M$ question [OFF TOPIC] > > >-----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 BIOS configuration of the drive? You lost me here! :-( >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 Going from 20GB to 200(137)GB drive >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? I specifically have a MAXTOR Ultra-Series DiamondMax, 200GB, 8MB buffer, 7200 RPM hard drive that Staples.com promo sold this week for < $40.00. The kit provides "MaxBlast v4.0" software for formatting and partitioning of these drives and yes, they install the ontrack stuff on the drive but you can opt not to allow it to be installed but I did not choose that option so maybe that is why Ghost gets confused. I will try that again and let you know if this was/is the problem. >Have you looked to see if a BIOS upgrade is available for the >machine to >support the larger drivers. Apparently, I have the latest BIOS version installed and it supports LBA (32) but I dont have an ATA 133 IDE chip so therein lies the problem with the Motherboard. There is also no guarantee that if I buy the Maxtor ATA 133 card that the BIOS would even allow this drive to be bootable off the card. That is is why it is not an option for me as I tried this once and I returned 5 different ATA 133 cards due to the boot issue so I did not want to take this route again. Thanks for responding! Dan >+----------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. 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