moving system partition to new drive

Basty · October 17th, 2006, 09:53 PM

hmm i have tried using norton ghost clone the system partition to new drive that not the same size ... then stuck at loggin

anyone got some solution ?

zme-ul · October 17th, 2006, 11:08 PM

you can try HDClone

S31Kronos · October 18th, 2006, 05:22 AM

I've tried using Ghost, and have never had much luck. The advantage of it (when it works) over other "cloning" software is that it automatically adjusts the partition size to the new hard drive size. I would do a windows repair on the new install, that should fix it without losing your data...

zme-ul · October 18th, 2006, 10:59 AM

it's not that easy ...
I also had same problem when I migrated from an 200Gb WD to an 250Gb Maxtor

the thing is that windows xp (when you create the partition for the os with the boot cd) it leaves a nonpartitioned space about 4-8Mb
that free space contains something related to the install and it can not be copied by ghost

HDClone that I mentioned earlyer copies sectors not files

S31Kronos · October 18th, 2006, 12:50 PM

Well, that would explain why I've never had good luck with it then lol. Thanx for the info kind sir!!! Wouldn't a repair fix that though? Just curious... Actually, I'm upgrading my wife's drive from a 60 to a 160 tomorrow morning. Was gonna just do a new install, but maybe I'll try Norton's and see if the repair works... I'll let you know...

zme-ul · October 18th, 2006, 03:24 PM

rapair won't work
I've tried that

Basty · October 18th, 2006, 04:29 PM

ok now i can clone it successfully
the error was hardware inflition or something
after cloned if u boot with cloned disk , you have to remove the master disk away

and now i got another ploblem ... i created ghost image on another disk then .. the disk gone die ... like partition table broken or something .. i had checked the data are there but not accessible ... and more bad luck i didnt have engough free space for retrive those data (200g)
is there any prog can repair ?

btw thanks for helps

and thanks to acronis suit that way getting better than norton

squall_leonhart · October 20th, 2006, 06:31 PM

Seagate disk wizard works for me for cloning drives to a new size.

...you just have to enter repair console and reset the bootfile thats all :P

Mac Daddy · October 21st, 2006, 06:56 PM

Don't you just love happy endings