Back in 2001/2 Norton Ghost was brilliant, you could ghost one hard drive to another and swap hard drives.
I've just bought an XP Laptop and want to swap the weedy 20GB HDD for a spare 120GB HDD that I have lying around.
NG 2002 is no good as the laptop doesn't have a FDD.
Copying the HDD using NG 2012 results in "No Operating System Found".
Unfortunately I do need to clone the weedy drive as the laptop has come with no software.
I've just bought an XP Laptop and want to swap the weedy 20GB HDD for a spare 120GB HDD that I have lying around.
NG 2002 is no good as the laptop doesn't have a FDD.
Copying the HDD using NG 2012 results in "No Operating System Found".
Unfortunately I do need to clone the weedy drive as the laptop has come with no software.
Norton Ghost is still about, bundled in a Symantec package called 360 I think. I use True Image but CloneZilla, is free.
That sounds to me like something silly has happened like the Windows partition hasnt been marked as active. Easy way is to plug the HDD into another machine, open disk manager and mark the correct partition. If thats not an option you need to use Windows XP recovery mode and the Diskpart utility. i.e. lots of googling, have fun with that 🙂
I use "XXcClone".
XXCLONE, A New Way of Cloning the Windows System Disk
It can copy a windows disk and even make it bootable. if you are cloning a boot drive .
The last time I used it was to clone my win 7 boot drive as the old one was to "small"
http://www.xxclone.com/ixcman40.htm
It's for win XP/vista/ 7....3/64 bit
I use the free version ......it's all you need .. and........it's simple to use. 🙂
XXCLONE, A New Way of Cloning the Windows System Disk
It can copy a windows disk and even make it bootable. if you are cloning a boot drive .
The last time I used it was to clone my win 7 boot drive as the old one was to "small"
http://www.xxclone.com/ixcman40.htm
It's for win XP/vista/ 7....3/64 bit
I use the free version ......it's all you need .. and........it's simple to use. 🙂
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I use Acronis True Image. I had some SSD failures under WinXP and swapped in new SSDs and restored the images. Takes about a half hour total.
The new machines are running Win 7 64 bit and are too new to be having problems but I used the image of the first machine to create the second machine. There are limits to that as the processors have serial numbers and the 'identical' motherboards have different MAC addresses. Having multiple drives for the same machine is no problem at all
After my problems with SSDs I have 4 machines and a fifth SSD 'just in case' and I image the machines every week.
I installed Acronis just long enough to make a bootable CD and then uninstalled Acronis and only use the bootable CD on any Windows machine.
The only snag you're likely to have is initially your 120gB drive will have a 20 gB partition which you'll have to resize to use the whole disc.
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Mike
If the laptop supports booting from usb, you can try a usb floppy drive.
You can also create a bootable usb stick and launch the older version of Ghost that way as well.
You are far better off to do a clean reload though, best to start out with a clean load.
As for software, there is no shortage of good free software offerings out there if you look around.
Most of the stuff that comes bundled with PCs is not the greatest anyways.
If you mean that you don't have any oem drivers for it, most brand name laptops have them available for download.
You can also create a bootable usb stick and launch the older version of Ghost that way as well.
You are far better off to do a clean reload though, best to start out with a clean load.
As for software, there is no shortage of good free software offerings out there if you look around.
Most of the stuff that comes bundled with PCs is not the greatest anyways.
If you mean that you don't have any oem drivers for it, most brand name laptops have them available for download.
I guess there are few programs that work. and it all come down to personal preference.
I use "XX Clone" because of it's simple interface and it works flawlessly. 🙂
I use "XX Clone" because of it's simple interface and it works flawlessly. 🙂
I had to Google it to figure out what you guys were talking about. Tri-colour and Black & Tan has a very different meaning over here lol.
If you are running Ghost from Windows, it might be a drive assignment issue.
I usually run it from a dos bootable usb stick, and have never had any issues.
Not sure what was the latest version I have worked with though, work would upgrade versions every few years or so.
I usually run it from a dos bootable usb stick, and have never had any issues.
Not sure what was the latest version I have worked with though, work would upgrade versions every few years or so.
I did try making the HDD "active" but that didn't work either.
I've got XP installation disks but I don't have the driver disks for the laptop.
Is there a way of copying the drivers from the original HDD to the new 120GB HDD after a fresh install of XP ?
The fresh install is going well so it's obviously not a BIOS issue with the bigger HDD.
I've got XP installation disks but I don't have the driver disks for the laptop.
Is there a way of copying the drivers from the original HDD to the new 120GB HDD after a fresh install of XP ?
The fresh install is going well so it's obviously not a BIOS issue with the bigger HDD.
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Well the fresh install didn't work either, just trying it again with the KILL EVERYTHING PREVIOUS option, see if that works.
Seems as though the 120GB drive doesn't have a bootable partition.
Seems as though the 120GB drive doesn't have a bootable partition.
Hard to diagnose with limited information.
How old is the laptop, brand model etc ?
The bios may not recognize the larger hard drive, there are also windows limitations with the earlier versions like sp1.
On a working pc, you can partition the larger drive first to reduce to manageable size.
I take it from the small 20GB size that they are ide drives.
How old is the laptop, brand model etc ?
The bios may not recognize the larger hard drive, there are also windows limitations with the earlier versions like sp1.
On a working pc, you can partition the larger drive first to reduce to manageable size.
I take it from the small 20GB size that they are ide drives.
Looks like the sp1 limit is 127 GB or so, which shouldn't apply to you.
You can get around that by slipstreaming SP3 into the XP install image, and then you burn your own XP SP3 install disk.
With the laptop brand/model known, you should be able to determine what hardware it can support.
In some cases you might have to update the bios, but if you do that wrong you could end up with a door stop.
You can get around that by slipstreaming SP3 into the XP install image, and then you burn your own XP SP3 install disk.
With the laptop brand/model known, you should be able to determine what hardware it can support.
In some cases you might have to update the bios, but if you do that wrong you could end up with a door stop.
It's an ACER TravelMate 2420 if that helps. I don't know how old it is. It accepted the 2 x 1GB RAM OK and seems to like the HDD, but trying to get it to boot a 120GB HDD seems a problem.
Yes they are EIDE HDDs.
It's formatting the HDD OK so the BIOS seems happy with it ?
Yes they are EIDE HDDs.
It's formatting the HDD OK so the BIOS seems happy with it ?
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