It sounds like you're trying to run the cloned OS with the old drive still in the system? What happens if you remove the old drive and put the new (clone) drive in its place?
Well, when i tried it after you had mentioned doing it. It gave me a normal Xp "loading" screen (complete with the cloned sv2 blue bars) but after that it took me to a blank, black creen.
I also ran system config and the BIOS recognizes it. I then ran the dell utillity partition on it and everything came out fine, so I don't think its a fualt with the hardware (more like the ignorance of the user!):smileywink:
I think i am missing something very basic here, and please note that i am only somewhat computer literate, so if it is something simple for you like creating a boot disk; i might have missed that part.
Well, I don't use CasperXP myself (I find it too limited), but I know that its usual purpose is to make a *replacement* HD--that is, make the copy, remove the original, put copy in its place, and boot the copy. CasperXP should be perfectly adequate for that specific purpose. Once you try to boot with both HDs in at the same time, though, it can play heck with partition signatures recorded in the registry.
Since your original is apparantly still working properly, I'd try starting over from the beginning. First put your original back in without the new drive, and make sure it still works properly as a single drive. Then add the new HD, remove the new HD's partition, make a fresh partition again, copy with CasperXP, remove old HD, swap copy into place, and see if the copy boots properly.
yeah, i tried it and it gives me the same prolem....also when i start cloning it gives me a message that it could not copy a "WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SOFTWARE" file, which is about 7 mb
> after the last post i tried simply a copy and paste to the new drive,
> but my first drive said that the file was in use.
> I was wondering if this could be the source of my problem
I don't know. But perhaps this gives you an idea why I don't use CasperXP, or any similar utility that runs from within Windows (DriveImage 7, Ghost 9, et al). They get very clever at ways to transfer files that are in use, and granted, they seem to work most of the time. Your case is not the norm, but isn't really uncommon, either.
It's always seemed intuitively obvious to me that the most reliable way to work on your OS partition is when you're not booted into it. I always use the DOS versions of PartitionMagic, DriveImage 2002, Ghost 2003, or BootIt-NG -- all programs that will run from a boot floppy so all Windows files are shut down when I go to work on the partition.
If you can't get this to work with CasperXP, I wouldn't waste a lot of time on it, I'd try a different program.
no I will check immediatly. However i don't think that is the problem...after the last post i tried simply a copy and paste to the new drive, but my first drive said that the file was in use....... from this i gather that it is a somewhat critical file considering that it is still running when i tried it in safe mode as well................ I was wondering if this could be the source of my problem, and if so, how to get the file to transfer.......
dg1261
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March 26th, 2005 08:00
It sounds like you're trying to run the cloned OS with the old drive still in the system? What happens if you remove the old drive and put the new (clone) drive in its place?
smthbrothrJ
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March 26th, 2005 23:00
Well, when i tried it after you had mentioned doing it. It gave me a normal Xp "loading" screen (complete with the cloned sv2 blue bars) but after that it took me to a blank, black creen.
I also ran system config and the BIOS recognizes it. I then ran the dell utillity partition on it and everything came out fine, so I don't think its a fualt with the hardware (more like the ignorance of the user!):smileywink:
I think i am missing something very basic here, and please note that i am only somewhat computer literate, so if it is something simple for you like creating a boot disk; i might have missed that part.
dg1261
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March 27th, 2005 01:00
Well, I don't use CasperXP myself (I find it too limited), but I know that its usual purpose is to make a *replacement* HD--that is, make the copy, remove the original, put copy in its place, and boot the copy. CasperXP should be perfectly adequate for that specific purpose. Once you try to boot with both HDs in at the same time, though, it can play heck with partition signatures recorded in the registry.
Since your original is apparantly still working properly, I'd try starting over from the beginning. First put your original back in without the new drive, and make sure it still works properly as a single drive. Then add the new HD, remove the new HD's partition, make a fresh partition again, copy with CasperXP, remove old HD, swap copy into place, and see if the copy boots properly.
smthbrothrJ
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March 27th, 2005 18:00
dg1261
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March 27th, 2005 22:00
Have you done a scandisk to see if there's a problem with that file?
dg1261
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March 27th, 2005 23:00
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