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Clone Fails to Boot
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| Newbie here. I am trying to get a system in place to clone a hard drive
on my desktop computer under WinXP Home. I want to clone the "C" drive
so that the clone will boot when I place it in "C" position on the
desktop computer. Nothing fancy, just a simple clone of my "C" drive
that will boot when I swap it with the current "C" drive.
I have been sucessful in doing this with the DOS version of Norton
Ghost. But, using DOS Ghost requires that I shut down, open the case,
place the "clone" in "D" position, put the Ghost floppy in the drive,
boot to Ghost, do the clone, shut down, remove the clone drive and put
"D" back in "D" position, close the case, remove the floppy and boot. It
works but it is a long process. I have an Addonics External USB2.0 case
that will take a hard drive, but Ghost can't make a clone of a boot
drive from WinXP and the Addonics will only support USB1.1 under DOS. So
a clone would take maybe 16 hours under Ghost.
I bought PowerQuest Drive Image 7.0 which is supposed to work under
WinXP without the need to boot to DOS for any clone. The process is very
simple. Plug the Addonics into a USB port, start Drive image and make a
clone of "C" to the Addonics hard drive. Only one problem, when I placed
the clone in "C" position, it won't boot. I must be doing something
wrong in the setup of Drive Image to create the clone, but I don't have
a clue.
Can someone please help?
Thanks, jimbo
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| There should be an option to make the destination drive "Active" in Drive
Image 7.0. Has this definitely been enabled?
"jimbo" <jimbo62@spamex.com> wrote in message
news:10ob4m8dadnhma6@corp.supernews.com...
> Newbie here. I am trying to get a system in place to clone a hard drive on
> my desktop computer under WinXP Home. I want to clone the "C" drive so
> that the clone will boot when I place it in "C" position on the desktop
> computer. Nothing fancy, just a simple clone of my "C" drive that will
> boot when I swap it with the current "C" drive.
>
> I have been sucessful in doing this with the DOS version of Norton Ghost.
> But, using DOS Ghost requires that I shut down, open the case, place the
> "clone" in "D" position, put the Ghost floppy in the drive, boot to Ghost,
> do the clone, shut down, remove the clone drive and put "D" back in "D"
> position, close the case, remove the floppy and boot. It works but it is a
> long process. I have an Addonics External USB2.0 case that will take a
> hard drive, but Ghost can't make a clone of a boot drive from WinXP and
> the Addonics will only support USB1.1 under DOS. So a clone would take
> maybe 16 hours under Ghost.
>
> I bought PowerQuest Drive Image 7.0 which is supposed to work under WinXP
> without the need to boot to DOS for any clone. The process is very simple.
> Plug the Addonics into a USB port, start Drive image and make a clone of
> "C" to the Addonics hard drive. Only one problem, when I placed the clone
> in "C" position, it won't boot. I must be doing something wrong in the
> setup of Drive Image to create the clone, but I don't have a clue.
>
> Can someone please help?
>
> Thanks, jimbo
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| Did you reset the disk signature on the hd in the addonics before you
placed it into the computer case?
What kind of error messages did you get when you tried to boot with
the addonics disk?
"ETA" <me@here.com> wrote in message news:<aq2dnbrp_sMxKTncRVnyhg@pipex.net>...[vbcol=seagreen]
> There should be an option to make the destination drive "Active" in Drive
> Image 7.0. Has this definitely been enabled?
>
> "jimbo" <jimbo62@spamex.com> wrote in message
> news:10ob4m8dadnhma6@corp.supernews.com...
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