Re: M$ question [OFF TOPIC]
- From: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:19:45 +1000
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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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