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Serban Andrei Dumitrescu
Hi folks,
I've received great help before from you and since now I#ve tried all the
things that possibly came to my mind I'm asking again for help.
Here's my problem:
Because of a failing hard drive (SMART warning) I've tried to replicate
all data on the replacement hdd (identical model).
At first, using Norton Ghost 2002 from bootable floppy I tried to
replicate the entire drive, but the process failed because of a read error
somewhere towards the "end" of the drive. Then I decided to replicate my
two partitions one by one. First I partitioned the new hard drive just
like the old one was (using Partition Magic 7): one system partition
(primary, active, NTFS - "C:") and one "data" partition (also primary,
NTFS, "D:"). Using Norton Ghost again I replicated the system partition
and decided to copy the files on the data partition later manually
(because the bad sectors were obviously on that one). Leaving the data
partition completely aside now, the problem I encountered was that after
disconnecting the old drive and jumpering the new one as "master", when
booting Windows from the new drive and logging in, there comes an error
msg or warning about not enough swap space and how to set up the page file
properly. However, after I click "OK", the logon dialog reappears at once,
then after logging in the swap warning appears again, then back to the
login box and so on. So that the actual Windows desktop never comes up,
leaving me no chance to set up the page file.
I think I undesrstand why a pagefile problem occurs: Norton Ghost probably
just copies the files, more or less, not replicating their exact physical
locations, therefore the "cloned" Windows installation doesn't find it's
pagefile where expected. However, I didn't find an option in Norton Ghost
for "raw" (sector by sector) copying. Maybe it does that when duplicating
the entire drive, but that failed before already due to bad sectors.
What irritates me most is the strange "loop"-like behaviour of Windows,
after login and the popup of the warning message immediately returning to
the login box again, wihtout ever getting to the desktop.
I didn't try out the "boot to command prompt" option because I don't know
of any way to set up the page file using shell commands. The "safe"
start mode (or whatever it's called; my copy of Windows is in German)
didn't work - I got caught in the same loop.
Also using different options for partition duplicating in Norton Ghost
(direct IDE access; copy standard/boot/all sectors; etc.) didn't make a
difference so far.
Please help me with that - It's been 4 days already since I'm working on
this and I have to send the "bad" drive back within the week.
Many thanks in advance!!
Andrei
I've received great help before from you and since now I#ve tried all the
things that possibly came to my mind I'm asking again for help.
Here's my problem:
Because of a failing hard drive (SMART warning) I've tried to replicate
all data on the replacement hdd (identical model).
At first, using Norton Ghost 2002 from bootable floppy I tried to
replicate the entire drive, but the process failed because of a read error
somewhere towards the "end" of the drive. Then I decided to replicate my
two partitions one by one. First I partitioned the new hard drive just
like the old one was (using Partition Magic 7): one system partition
(primary, active, NTFS - "C:") and one "data" partition (also primary,
NTFS, "D:"). Using Norton Ghost again I replicated the system partition
and decided to copy the files on the data partition later manually
(because the bad sectors were obviously on that one). Leaving the data
partition completely aside now, the problem I encountered was that after
disconnecting the old drive and jumpering the new one as "master", when
booting Windows from the new drive and logging in, there comes an error
msg or warning about not enough swap space and how to set up the page file
properly. However, after I click "OK", the logon dialog reappears at once,
then after logging in the swap warning appears again, then back to the
login box and so on. So that the actual Windows desktop never comes up,
leaving me no chance to set up the page file.
I think I undesrstand why a pagefile problem occurs: Norton Ghost probably
just copies the files, more or less, not replicating their exact physical
locations, therefore the "cloned" Windows installation doesn't find it's
pagefile where expected. However, I didn't find an option in Norton Ghost
for "raw" (sector by sector) copying. Maybe it does that when duplicating
the entire drive, but that failed before already due to bad sectors.
What irritates me most is the strange "loop"-like behaviour of Windows,
after login and the popup of the warning message immediately returning to
the login box again, wihtout ever getting to the desktop.
I didn't try out the "boot to command prompt" option because I don't know
of any way to set up the page file using shell commands. The "safe"
start mode (or whatever it's called; my copy of Windows is in German)
didn't work - I got caught in the same loop.
Also using different options for partition duplicating in Norton Ghost
(direct IDE access; copy standard/boot/all sectors; etc.) didn't make a
difference so far.
Please help me with that - It's been 4 days already since I'm working on
this and I have to send the "bad" drive back within the week.
Many thanks in advance!!
Andrei