Problems after ghost

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Hi,
Win2000pro temp disconcted from the domain. Has a user name and password for
the user. After using an older version of ghost (5.) it made the new drive a
swap file. Now the old drive will not go into windows because it cannot find
the swap file once the new drive is disconnected. I need to do the whole
thing over cannot get in even in safemode because it does not like the
password when in safe mode. I do not have the original disc although I do
have a win 2000 disc. The new harddrive has been repartitioned.
Any ideas on how to repair the swap file.
Thanks from Loretta
 
This article may help.

Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q249321/

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| Hi,
| Win2000pro temp disconcted from the domain. Has a user name and password
for
| the user. After using an older version of ghost (5.) it made the new drive
a
| swap file. Now the old drive will not go into windows because it cannot
find
| the swap file once the new drive is disconnected. I need to do the whole
| thing over cannot get in even in safemode because it does not like the
| password when in safe mode. I do not have the original disc although I do
| have a win 2000 disc. The new harddrive has been repartitioned.
| Any ideas on how to repair the swap file.
| Thanks from Loretta
|
|
 
Remember you can't put a ghost image on a smaller partition than what the
original image was taken from.

If you have two drives, can you slave the new drive. Once you do that, you
can change the swap file amount on the new drive. This is what worked for
me, howeve, I had to create the swap file on several partitions to ensure
that the OS would see them.

Then if you boot normal, you can change the swap file to a normal size and
back to one partition.
 
JCO said:
Remember you can't put a ghost image on a smaller partition than what the
original image was taken from.
Click to expand...

Why not? Is this a restriction of Ghost? Other imaging tools
have no such restriction.
 
The intent of Ghost (or True Image) is to restore to the same size drive or
bigger drive. I've had issues trying to go to a smaller drive. In some
cases, the restored image does not recognize the end of the physical
partition and may try to write data past that point. I don't remember
specifically what my computer symptoms were but I did some research into the
sistuation at that time (including newsgroups).

The origianl image is a bit by bit copy of your HD (or partiton), not just
the data. Therefore, on the restore, it is also a bit by bit restore (onto
a small HD or partition). This can cause issues with the End Markers.

One thing that can help, is to defrag and use speed disk before making the
Image. That way, your data is all in the front and the free space is at the
end.
 
My understanding is that this is a restriction on all imaging tools.
This is not to say that you will always have issues, but the outcome is
certainly not assured.
 
This is certainly NOT a restriction of other imaging tools. I have
used Acronis TrueImage and PowerQuest DriveImage
extensively, and both of them will restore images to smaller
drives without a problem. The very early versions of DriveImage
took a bit-by-bit image of the partition but the later versions
became much smarter: They allow you to keep the target
partition the same, expand it or shrink it.

I suggest you either switch products or else you investigate
Ghost more thoroughly.
 
I will look into it. I can only say that I had a previous problem. I used
both Ghost and TrueImage and had the same results... with an image going to
a smaller partition.

Thanks for the information... I will research the issue.
 
I want to add. My concern is with a partition that is the Primary boot ...
that has the operating system on it.
 
Just about all of my work with imaging products relates
to boot partitions. As I said before, these days all of the
ones I use can expand/shrink partitions.
 
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