M$ question [OFF TOPIC] [SOLVED]
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Thu Feb 23 22:33:30 UTC 2006
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>To: Michael D. Setzer II; For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: RE: M$ question [OFF TOPIC]
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>>From: Michael D. Setzer II [mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net]
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:20 AM
>>To: Daniel B. Thurman; For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: M$ question [OFF TOPIC]
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>>On 22 Feb 2006 at 8:21, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
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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
>
>BIOS configuration of the drive? You lost me here! :-(
>
>>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
>
>Going from 20GB to 200(137)GB drive
>
>>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?
>
>I specifically have a MAXTOR Ultra-Series DiamondMax, 200GB,
>8MB buffer, 7200 RPM hard drive that Staples.com promo sold
>this week for < $40.00. The kit provides "MaxBlast v4.0"
>software for formatting and partitioning of these drives and
>yes, they install the ontrack stuff on the drive but you can
>opt not to allow it to be installed but I did not choose that
>option so maybe that is why Ghost gets confused. I will try
>that again and let you know if this was/is the problem.
>
Removing the offending MAXTOR DDO(?) allowed Ghost to do the
parition to partition copy and the drive boots! The only
downside I encountered was that I had to disconnect/reconnect
to the domain controller and re-setup the users for this disk.
Thanks for responding,
Dan
>>Have you looked to see if a BIOS upgrade is available for the
>>machine to
>>support the larger drivers.
>
>Apparently, I have the latest BIOS version installed and it
>supports LBA (32) but I dont have an ATA 133 IDE chip so
>therein lies the problem with the Motherboard. There is
>also no guarantee that if I buy the Maxtor ATA 133 card
>that the BIOS would even allow this drive to be bootable
>off the card. That is is why it is not an option for me
>as I tried this once and I returned 5 different ATA 133
>cards due to the boot issue so I did not want to take this
>route again.
>
>Thanks for responding!
>Dan
>
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