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Thread ID: 58050	2005-05-19 22:28:00	Ghost/Authentication issue	lamb (8162)	Press F1

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356837	2005-05-19 22:28:00	Wondering if anyone has had a similar problem like this. I had to ghost a 6GB XP system partition to a new 160GB HD. I had to a BIOS update so the board would recognize the 160GB, went ahead and partitioned the drive. Then tried to used Ghost to copy the partition over to the first partition on the 160GB drive. Ghost complained about being unable to defragment VIRPART.DAT even though the drive had 20% free and was defragmented. Got the ghost to perform the copy on another PC with the 2 drive attached to the secondarty controller. Boot up Windows on the new 160GB, error 8009006, only way fix is to do a repair install of Windows XP. Did this, re-enter CD-KEY, Windows finally comes up. But the whole of Dial-Up Networking was gone, unable to start remote access connection manager service etc. While I'm checking this out, some strange error messages are popping up ( unable to do ???? with system restore going into System Propertie etc), I noticed that the system drive was F:!!!! Call me stupid but I didn't think to check that the C drive had come up as C drive after the ghost operation!!! What had happened is that I had created and formated the new partitions on the new 160GB drive using XP from the original 6GB C drive. The became F: and G:. I then ghosted the orig C drive to the 160GB partition 1, but XP when booting up on the new 160GB drive obviously has an entry for the drive to be F: I got around this by booting from the original drive again, use the DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES environment variable to remove the old entries for the new hard drive from device manager, perform the ghost operation again. XP came up without the 8009006 error, was able to re-authenticate XP across the net (still don't know why XP wanted to re-authenticate as only one piece of hardware was chnaged???) and all was OK. I work as a computer technican for myself and this job, which should not have taken more than an hour ended up taking close to 4 hours. Having quoted the client for an hours work it ended up costing me big time. Do others out there have similar issues like this? How do people deal with issues like this with thier clients?	lamb (8162)
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