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Using Ghost to Replace C Drive?
I'm trying to replace the C drive on my 8200 using Norton Ghost to copy the drive to my new disk. I read the part about if there are multiple partitions that you must copy one at a time. I did, but I couldn't boot the new disk after swapping it into the C position. There is a FAT partition on C that is described as Dell Utility in addition to the C Drive partition. It is labeled "*". Does anyone have tips or ideas as to how I might accomplish the task at hand? I'm just trying to move off the WD 30MB to a Samsung 80MB.
Thanks!
- Thanks for your reply. I did move the DOS partition, then the NTFS. I also used the MBR option, but not the active disk. My read on that one was that the new disk would become the boot disk after restart. Would it be the "C" drive? I thought it might work better just to make a copy of the "C" drive, pull the old one out and put the new one in its place. Do I not understand the active disk option? Also, after copying the 2 partitions to the new drive, the DOS partition was the only one appearing from explorer -- it had a drive letter assigned to it and was named DELLUTILITY. I knew that was wrong as it had never shown up on explorer before and the NTFS partition was nowhere to be found with explorer. I was able to replace another disk on my system with Ghost and everything worked fine after I changed the drive letter back to its original. Thing is, I didn't really need Ghost for that. I bought it to replace the boot disk. Help?
@ronupc wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I did move the DOS partition, then the NTFS. I also used the MBR option, but not the active disk. My read on that one was that the new disk would become the boot disk after restart. Would it be the "C" drive? I thought it might work better just to make a copy of the "C" drive, pull the old one out and put the new one in its place. Do I not understand the active disk option? Also, after copying the 2 partitions to the new drive, the DOS partition was the only one appearing from explorer -- it had a drive letter assigned to it and was named DELLUTILITY. I knew that was wrong as it had never shown up on explorer before and the NTFS partition was nowhere to be found with explorer. I was able to replace another disk on my system with Ghost and everything worked fine after I changed the drive letter back to its original. Thing is, I didn't really need Ghost for that. I bought it to replace the boot disk. Help?
There is no reason to use Ghost, simply use the new drive manufacturer's software that came with the drive or is downloadable.
jankerson
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Posted March 21st, 2005 08:00
Did you move the C partition last?
The Dos Partition has to be first on the Drive then the C:\ partition next.
Also in Ghost you have a tool to fix the MBR so the drive will boot, also make sure you set the Drive as active.