Restore using Norton Ghost

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I have 2 physical drives, C and D. C drive is 15 gb and D drive is 80 gb. Win
XP is installed on C drive.

C drive is starting to crash on me, so I used Norton Ghost to back up that
drive to D drive. Can I now restore the files on D drive, remove C drive, and
then boot from D?

Thx!
 
There is a difference between "backing up" and "cloning/Ghosting" a drive.
A ghosted drive can be booted.
You need to Ghost drive C to Drive D.........this creates an exact bootable
copy.
peter
 
I have 2 physical drives, C and D. C drive is 15 gb and D drive is 80 gb. Win
XP is installed on C drive.

C drive is starting to crash on me, so I used Norton Ghost to back up that
drive to D drive. Can I now restore the files on D drive, remove C drive, and
then boot from D?

Thx!
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If you want to have to call M$ to activate your windows by voice from nowon you can. Just a fact. If you have to install that version of XP on ANOTHER physical drive, you will be activating by phone voice from now on.

Another drive = another machine to M$. I'd say they figure if you get annoyed enough with their operators you'll put out another $138 - $209 for another CD to avoid that contact.

15 gb is just barely enough for the OS.

But I don't think you can boot from D: Unless you've modified it in the BIOS as your boot drive. Everything you install want's to install to C:\????. You must force everything to install elsewhere.
Plus you'd need to install the OS to D: not restore, because the restore would be looking for the 15gb C: drive. Meaning even if that D: were labeled C: the difference in size would make a restore impossible. Not tomention the mechanics involved. D: is now an 80 gb partition. and it hasthe OS image on it. it'd be similar to copying a file to itself. the OS isn't designed for that.

If C: is definitely trash, I'd think backing up D:'s data and C:'s data to a CD or DVD. Remove C, or wait for it to self destruct, backing up on a regular basis as long as possible. Then stick D: in C:'s slot, get a new 300-500 gig HD. Format D: 80 gb [now C:] as 2 partitions 30 gb C: & 50gb D: and the new drive E:.

And just resign yourself to voice activation by phone as long as your current 80gb C: drive will last.
 
Yep, I used Norton Ghost to copy the C drive to the other HDD, and made the
2nd drive a bootable one. But - although I have changed my jumper settings,
changed the primary master to be the 2nd drive, etc, etc - the system will
not boot from it! I disconnected the C drive to test it all out, but when it
wouldnt boot from the 2nd, drive - and none of my solutions worked - I just
put the C drive back in (which is how I'm able to write this!).

What am I doing wrong? The new bootable drive letter is F and I have checked
to verify that the boot files are present on the F drive, but the system wont
boot from it! I've been thru all the CMOS stuff, too, as mentioned above, and
none of the changes have made any difference.
 
If you want to have to call M$ to activate your windows by voice from now on you can. Just a fact. If you have to install that version of XP on ANOTHER physical drive, you will be activating by phone voice from now on.

Another drive = another machine to M$. I'd say they figure if you get annoyed enough with their operators you'll put out another $138 - $209 for another CD to avoid that contact.
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Another drive is just another drive, you can change as many as you want
and it doesn't trigger reactivation - I've done it hundreds of times
without activation needed.

Reactivation is cause by several changes, not just a drive change.
15 gb is just barely enough for the OS.
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Many people do a 15GB (or 8 to 20) OS partition and then install apps on
the D partition which could be 100+GB.
But I don't think you can boot from D: Unless you've modified it in the BIOS as your boot drive. Everything you install want's to install to C:\????. You must force everything to install elsewhere.
Plus you'd need to install the OS to D: not restore, because the restore would be looking for the 15gb C: drive. Meaning even if that D: were labeled C: the difference in size would make a restore impossible. Not to mention the mechanics involved. D: is now an 80 gb partition. and it has the OS image on it. it'd be similar to copying a file to itself. the OS isn't designed for that.

If C: is definitely trash, I'd think backing up D:'s data and C:'s data to a CD or DVD. Remove C, or wait for it to self destruct, backing up on a regular basis as long as possible. Then stick D: in C:'s slot, get a new 300-500 gig HD. Format D: 80 gb [now C:] as 2 partitions 30 gb C: & 50gb D: and the new drive E:.

And just resign yourself to voice activation by phone as long as your current 80gb C: drive will last.
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The problem is that a "Backup" is not the same as a IMAGE, a Drive to
Drive image is what was needed.
 
Another drive is just another drive, you can change as many as you want
and it doesn't trigger reactivation - I've done it hundreds of times
without activation needed.
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If you install the OS CD on another drive, that's a DIFFERENT machine as far as M$ is concerned.
2 different drives with the SAME EXACT OS CD on a single user license CD will not work thru normal activation.
 
Hi again
we want to make sure we are comparing Apples to Apples not Oranges so we
need to get the terminology right...You cloned not copied the whole drive
not just the XP directory.......right??
You then Removed the C drive and after changing the jumpers on the cloned D
drive from slave to master you hooked it up to EIDE cable as a master(where
the old drive used to be)...It should actually show up as C drive
If at this point it did not boot I would suggest a "repair" installation of
XP which does not change your settings or programs but can fix boot sector
problems.After this "repair" you would need to download all of the XP
updates again.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

peter
 
Yeah, you can...I just did it.

1) Ensure that the 3 bootup files are installed on the 2nd HDD

2) Edit the boot.ini file to default-boot from the 2nd HDD

3) Presto.

Works fine, did just what I wanted!
 
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