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Cloning hard drive.

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Alex Kransky, 2003/03/26.

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    Alex Kransky

    Alex Kransky Inactive Thread Starter

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    I bought a new hard drive and wanted to swap it with the old one using Ghost.I made exact copy of hard drive but the system doesn't start,I get the screen of Goback and after that nothing.In BIOS it says the drive IS master but when I made the copy I couldn't give it the C letter 'cos it's already been taken by the original drive.Could this be the problem?
    Any help will be appriciated!
     
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    Yup, you've nailed the problem.
    Here's how to fix it.
    Put the drive back in as slave, or secondary.
    Boot to a DOS diskette with fdisk on it, and fdisk the new drive, remove all partitions completely.
    Don't make any!
    This will remove it's "D" letter designation.
    Restart to the Ghost diskette, and Ghost the drive.
    Shutdown, and make the new drive primary master, and it should boot fine.
     
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    Alex Kransky

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    Thanx a lot,mate that was a really quick reply.I'll have to make the Ghost diskette first and then try to reformat the drive.Best regards Al.
     
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