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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for
master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
No, an image is a compressed backup, like a ZIP file.
-- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
No, an image is a compressed backup, like a ZIP file.
-- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
I think, though not sure, that Doug may have misunderstood what you are
trying to do. If I understand you correctly, you want to make a ghost image of your current C drive. You are then going to restore that image on your current slave drive, reset the cables and jumpers so that the current slave drive is the master, and then expect the computer to boot from that drive. This should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield Windows XP / Smart Display MVP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
I think, though not sure, that Doug may have misunderstood what you are
trying to do. If I understand you correctly, you want to make a ghost image of your current C drive. You are then going to restore that image on your current slave drive, reset the cables and jumpers so that the current slave drive is the master, and then expect the computer to boot from that drive. This should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield Windows XP / Smart Display MVP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
You're probably right, Tom
-- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Tom Porterfield" wrote in message ... I think, though not sure, that Doug may have misunderstood what you are trying to do. If I understand you correctly, you want to make a ghost image of your current C drive. You are then going to restore that image on your current slave drive, reset the cables and jumpers so that the current slave drive is the master, and then expect the computer to boot from that drive. This should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield Windows XP / Smart Display MVP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
You're probably right, Tom
-- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Tom Porterfield" wrote in message ... I think, though not sure, that Doug may have misunderstood what you are trying to do. If I understand you correctly, you want to make a ghost image of your current C drive. You are then going to restore that image on your current slave drive, reset the cables and jumpers so that the current slave drive is the master, and then expect the computer to boot from that drive. This should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield Windows XP / Smart Display MVP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
Agreed, this should work fine, but I have seen occasions where you had to
use fdisk to make the partition active to boot. "Tom Porterfield" wrote in message ... I think, though not sure, that Doug may have misunderstood what you are trying to do. If I understand you correctly, you want to make a ghost image of your current C drive. You are then going to restore that image on your current slave drive, reset the cables and jumpers so that the current slave drive is the master, and then expect the computer to boot from that drive. This should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield Windows XP / Smart Display MVP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
Agreed, this should work fine, but I have seen occasions where you had to
use fdisk to make the partition active to boot. "Tom Porterfield" wrote in message ... I think, though not sure, that Doug may have misunderstood what you are trying to do. If I understand you correctly, you want to make a ghost image of your current C drive. You are then going to restore that image on your current slave drive, reset the cables and jumpers so that the current slave drive is the master, and then expect the computer to boot from that drive. This should work fine. -- Tom Porterfield Windows XP / Smart Display MVP http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tp.porterfield/support Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only. "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
JCW,
No, your new drive will not boot under the conditions you describe. The following instructions from Alex Nichol MVP will provide the necessary information to do what you are attempting; What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 shareware - 30 day full functional trial) Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to make a boot floppy. With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering Maintenance, then click Partition work. highlight your C:, click Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) click on the free space in it and click Paste. You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes in that (to become drives D:, etc) Close out, swap the disks to make the new one bootable, and remove the other for the moment, At this point reboot the BING floppy, again Partition Work, this time click 'View MBR' and in it highlight your C and click to 'Set active', then click to write 'Std MBR' code and click 'Apply' - this makes the partition bootable. and you can exit and reboot to XP. (end quote) -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
JCW,
No, your new drive will not boot under the conditions you describe. The following instructions from Alex Nichol MVP will provide the necessary information to do what you are attempting; What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 shareware - 30 day full functional trial) Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to make a boot floppy. With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering Maintenance, then click Partition work. highlight your C:, click Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) click on the free space in it and click Paste. You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes in that (to become drives D:, etc) Close out, swap the disks to make the new one bootable, and remove the other for the moment, At this point reboot the BING floppy, again Partition Work, this time click 'View MBR' and in it highlight your C and click to 'Set active', then click to write 'Std MBR' code and click 'Apply' - this makes the partition bootable. and you can exit and reboot to XP. (end quote) -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
Hello Sir George,
Will this procedure cause any lose of data, programs etc.? Thanks "Sir_George" wrote in message ... JCW, No, your new drive will not boot under the conditions you describe. The following instructions from Alex Nichol MVP will provide the necessary information to do what you are attempting; What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 shareware - 30 day full functional trial) Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to make a boot floppy. With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering Maintenance, then click Partition work. highlight your C:, click Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) click on the free space in it and click Paste. You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes in that (to become drives D:, etc) Close out, swap the disks to make the new one bootable, and remove the other for the moment, At this point reboot the BING floppy, again Partition Work, this time click 'View MBR' and in it highlight your C and click to 'Set active', then click to write 'Std MBR' code and click 'Apply' - this makes the partition bootable. and you can exit and reboot to XP. (end quote) -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
Hello Sir George,
Will this procedure cause any lose of data, programs etc.? Thanks "Sir_George" wrote in message ... JCW, No, your new drive will not boot under the conditions you describe. The following instructions from Alex Nichol MVP will provide the necessary information to do what you are attempting; What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 shareware - 30 day full functional trial) Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to make a boot floppy. With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering Maintenance, then click Partition work. highlight your C:, click Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) click on the free space in it and click Paste. You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes in that (to become drives D:, etc) Close out, swap the disks to make the new one bootable, and remove the other for the moment, At this point reboot the BING floppy, again Partition Work, this time click 'View MBR' and in it highlight your C and click to 'Set active', then click to write 'Std MBR' code and click 'Apply' - this makes the partition bootable. and you can exit and reboot to XP. (end quote) -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
JCW,
There is no reason that you should lose any data, but the old caveat "Backup" all your important files still applies. -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... Hello Sir George, Will this procedure cause any lose of data, programs etc.? Thanks "Sir_George" wrote in message ... JCW, No, your new drive will not boot under the conditions you describe. The following instructions from Alex Nichol MVP will provide the necessary information to do what you are attempting; What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 shareware - 30 day full functional trial) Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to make a boot floppy. With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering Maintenance, then click Partition work. highlight your C:, click Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) click on the free space in it and click Paste. You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes in that (to become drives D:, etc) Close out, swap the disks to make the new one bootable, and remove the other for the moment, At this point reboot the BING floppy, again Partition Work, this time click 'View MBR' and in it highlight your C and click to 'Set active', then click to write 'Std MBR' code and click 'Apply' - this makes the partition bootable. and you can exit and reboot to XP. (end quote) -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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Is a Ghost Image bootable?
JCW,
There is no reason that you should lose any data, but the old caveat "Backup" all your important files still applies. -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... Hello Sir George, Will this procedure cause any lose of data, programs etc.? Thanks "Sir_George" wrote in message ... JCW, No, your new drive will not boot under the conditions you describe. The following instructions from Alex Nichol MVP will provide the necessary information to do what you are attempting; What I use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($30 shareware - 30 day full functional trial) Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to make a boot floppy. With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering Maintenance, then click Partition work. highlight your C:, click Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1) click on the free space in it and click Paste. You might then consider a resize up a bit. Or highlight the free space remaining beyond, click Create choosing Extended partition to use the rest of the space, then similarly in that to make one or more volumes in that (to become drives D:, etc) Close out, swap the disks to make the new one bootable, and remove the other for the moment, At this point reboot the BING floppy, again Partition Work, this time click 'View MBR' and in it highlight your C and click to 'Set active', then click to write 'Std MBR' code and click 'Apply' - this makes the partition bootable. and you can exit and reboot to XP. (end quote) -- Sir_George "JCW" wrote in message ... If I make a GHOST Image of my C: drive onto my slave and then cable it for master will it boot as if it were the C Drive? I have a new 60 gig hard drive that I want to install as a slave and use the current 60 gig slave as the master and remove the 40 gig which is the current C drive, format it and install it in a different box. Am I explaining this correctly and will it work? Thanks JCW |
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