Norton Ghost 2005 help

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:08 pm

I did a disk duplicate of a bootable drive. (just went up to a bigger HDD) the new drive will boot and all but when it loads windows it says i dont have enough page filing and will not fully boot.

this same problem, but on a 2000 machine and i dont want to have to go in and do all that if i dont have to.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread7532.html

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:08 am

no one i guess huh. LOL

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bubba · Post by **bubba** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:10 am

sorry, don't know a thing about it.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:17 pm

What version of windows are you running?

I presume you mean you dont want to have to do this.

Erm, how many drives do you currently have connected? Is it possible to add another drive (in case windows thinks it should be paging to say D: instead of C:) to see if that helps.

Can you add more RAM to it temporarily, to discourage the need to page (how much RAM do you currently have?).

Apart from that, i dont see what you can do apart from the MS Knowledgebase article.

Dan

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:20 pm

The very least you could do, is re-install the original boot disk, if you have it, and increase the page file size, and create a new ghost. Not sure if that would actually save time over the 'official fix' tho...

Dan

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:37 pm

Found this over at another forum, is this what your trying to do? If so the fix is included too.

My situation: upgrading a C: drive to a larger HDD (second-hand and already formatted) using Norton Ghost9. Disk Copy appears to work, but there is no WinXP login screen when you boot with the new drive. (In Win2k, the same problem occurs, except that you get a message about a missing Page file when you try to log in).

The reason this happens, is because of the way Windows assigns drive letters, and is also able to uniquely identify each HDD. When you copy the drive, you are probably copying from C: to E: (for example). This drive letter is held in the Registry. It overrides whatever drive letter is assigned by DOS.

When you reboot from the new drive (which was previously E:, but looks like C: in DOS), part-way through the process Windows recognises the HDD listed in the Registry, and sees that it has been assigned the letter E:. So it changes it from C: to E:! No more C: drive, and no login possible.

This is what worked for me, with the target drive formatted NTFS and mounted as E:
1. Start Ghost 9 (don't copy the drive yet)
2. Start RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/MountedDevices
3. Swap the key names for \DosDevices\C: and \DosDevices\E:
(you'll have to change C: to T:, E: to C: and T: to E: for example, to avoid duplicating the name).
This modifies the live Registry on disk, ready to be copied.
It doesn't upset your running PC, because the Windows drive assignment is only read when Windows boots.
4. Run the Disk Copy (use both Set Drive Active and Copy MBR flags) and let it complete.
Your "fixed" registry is now on the new disk.
5. Now swap the above key names again, back the way they started out, to restore the registry on the old disk.
6. Quit RegEdit, Quit Ghost, swap the HDD connections and reboot.

If it works for you like it did for me, the new drive will boot perfectly and is still assigned the letter C: which is almost certainly what you want. All programs work just like they did before.

You still have your old drive as backup - it hasn't changed.

You might want to back up your registry before you edit it - but these edits are very straight-forward. The biggest risk is a power cut while the Registry is in its modified state and the DiskCopy is only half complete. Borrow a UPS if you're nervous!

Dan

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:07 pm

dang, well thank you for the help!!!!! what i did was i said F it and went in and reformatted the drive and i accidentaly hit repair and supposdly that did. So a mistake turned good. LOL i will keep that in mind for future use though.

I dont understand why ghost doesnt do that automatically, it kind of defeats the purpose of a "friendly version" of ghost. LOL

None the less thank you for your help, i will keep that quote in my records for future use.

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:33 pm

I think it was more of a windows defect than ghost, though it'd be interesting to see if they've been able to fix it in ghost 10.

Dan

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:10 am

lol i dont know what version i have, i will have to find that out.