JohnR
December 11th 03, 09:58 PM
You should use Norton Ghost for what you want to do. I
back up to an external 40Gb HD with Ghost and it work
great and has saved me loads of time.
The hal.dll thing happened to me a few times after
defraging with Diskeeper. It seems that hal.dll needs to
be near the beginning of the hd so XP can find it.
The hal.dll thing might be solved if you run Bootvis to
optimize your boot process THEN defrag your hd before you
do your backup. This puts all the files Windows needs to
boot at the beginning of the HD for faster boot. I use
PerfectDisk to do my defrags because it arranges files
according to the layout.ini file for faster boots.
AS far as HP OEM software goes, I've had 2 HP Pavilions
and the PC's themselves were great but only AFTER I did a
format and installed the Retail version of Windows. This
happened to 2 Pavilions, 1 that came with ME preinstalled
and 1 with XP Home preinstalled.
Good Luck,
J.R.
>-----Original Message-----
> Don't put anything past HP, they have the most
>inconsiderate software and software packages. I would
>bet a case of beer that it is HP, not Microsoft.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>The environment is a new HP-763N with Windows XP Pro
>>installed on top of the original XP Home. XP Service
>Pack
>>1 has not been installed.
>>
>>Having a backup of C: on another hard drive (HD) is a
>firm
>>requirement for me. I have saved lots of hours over the
>>past years when I could totally restore C: from a
backup
>>HD with all my applications in 20 minutes rather than
>the
>>lots of hours it took to reinstall all the software and
>>patches.
>>
>>I tried the Windows XP Pro Recovery process several
>times.
>>I built a backup on one of the backup HD partitions.
>Then,
>>I ran the recovery process to recover the backup to the
>>primary partition of the backup HD. Again, I set the HD
>up
>>to be the only, master HD. When I tried to boot, I got
>an
>>error saying that \system32\hal.dll was missing. When I
>>restarted the computer on the original HD, I found that
>>the file was not missing. Just to be sure, I copied the
>>file from the original C: to the backup primary
>partition.
>>However, this did not fix the problem. I got the same
>>failure.
>>
>>I'm wondering if HP has build into the software they
>>deliver something to prevent movement of their software
>>and operating system to another computer and this is
>>preventing the backup processes from working!!!
>>
>>
>>Thoughts and recommendations to fix the problem
>>
>>WWP
>>.
>>
>.
>
back up to an external 40Gb HD with Ghost and it work
great and has saved me loads of time.
The hal.dll thing happened to me a few times after
defraging with Diskeeper. It seems that hal.dll needs to
be near the beginning of the hd so XP can find it.
The hal.dll thing might be solved if you run Bootvis to
optimize your boot process THEN defrag your hd before you
do your backup. This puts all the files Windows needs to
boot at the beginning of the HD for faster boot. I use
PerfectDisk to do my defrags because it arranges files
according to the layout.ini file for faster boots.
AS far as HP OEM software goes, I've had 2 HP Pavilions
and the PC's themselves were great but only AFTER I did a
format and installed the Retail version of Windows. This
happened to 2 Pavilions, 1 that came with ME preinstalled
and 1 with XP Home preinstalled.
Good Luck,
J.R.
>-----Original Message-----
> Don't put anything past HP, they have the most
>inconsiderate software and software packages. I would
>bet a case of beer that it is HP, not Microsoft.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>The environment is a new HP-763N with Windows XP Pro
>>installed on top of the original XP Home. XP Service
>Pack
>>1 has not been installed.
>>
>>Having a backup of C: on another hard drive (HD) is a
>firm
>>requirement for me. I have saved lots of hours over the
>>past years when I could totally restore C: from a
backup
>>HD with all my applications in 20 minutes rather than
>the
>>lots of hours it took to reinstall all the software and
>>patches.
>>
>>I tried the Windows XP Pro Recovery process several
>times.
>>I built a backup on one of the backup HD partitions.
>Then,
>>I ran the recovery process to recover the backup to the
>>primary partition of the backup HD. Again, I set the HD
>up
>>to be the only, master HD. When I tried to boot, I got
>an
>>error saying that \system32\hal.dll was missing. When I
>>restarted the computer on the original HD, I found that
>>the file was not missing. Just to be sure, I copied the
>>file from the original C: to the backup primary
>partition.
>>However, this did not fix the problem. I got the same
>>failure.
>>
>>I'm wondering if HP has build into the software they
>>deliver something to prevent movement of their software
>>and operating system to another computer and this is
>>preventing the backup processes from working!!!
>>
>>
>>Thoughts and recommendations to fix the problem
>>
>>WWP
>>.
>>
>.
>