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| Thread ID: 25348 | 2002-10-01 21:39:00 | Using Norton Ghost | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 85131 | 2002-10-01 21:39:00 | I'm getting a new-to-me PC (free!) from my bro, and want to transfer my existing drive's contents to the new machine. He has Norton Ghost. I have 2 drives, C with apps and my o/s (Win98), and D with data files and some apps. The new machine's drive will be partitioned into C and D. I'll fit my old drives into the new machine, making them E and F. Am I correct in thinking, that using Ghost, I can copy E and F into C and D directly, and have a completely functioning o/s and all apps working as before from the new drive? The new drive will have been completely formatted - where will Ghost have to be installed? I assume it won't run from C/D without an o/s pre-installed? Thx. |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 85132 | 2002-10-02 00:47:00 | Hopefully he will send you his copy of host to use. As long as the computer is setup so it ca boot off the cd rom, ghost will run fine. Yes you should be able to make an exact duplicate of your dries onto the new dries. Just becareful that you Ghost one partition to a blank one, because if you Ghost one partition to your other partition with data on it by mistake, it will overwrite the whole partition and you will lose all the data that was on it. Hope this helps. |
Cannon (2105) | ||
| 85133 | 2002-10-02 02:02:00 | With Norton ghost you make a boot floppy with the Ghost program on it, and do all your ghosting from the floppy, with the drives hooked up as master and slave. Much more importantly though, your OS on the C: partition will spit and cough if you try to run it in the new machine after copying over, because all the hardware is different. What you want to do BEFORE removing your existing drive, OR copying to the new one, is to go to Device Manager, and remove EVERY single device from there, including all the PCI stuff, every bit, mouse last of all. Then you can copy over the partitions using Ghost with the 2 drives hooked up as master and slave, but dont let the stripped down drive boot into windows or it will put all the devices back again. When the drive is put back in the new machine and booted Windows will re-detect all the hardware. You will then have to do the same re-detect with your existing machine to restore that as it was. It sounds a bit long winded but its the best way. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 85134 | 2002-10-02 03:45:00 | Just the sort of tips I needed. many thanks. | Greg S (201) | ||
| 85135 | 2002-10-02 04:04:00 | sometimes the methos terry mentioned doesn't always work right. it can be a bit messy. BEST way is to reinstall from scatch then copy any data you need over. its not a quick way but is usually a lot better exspecially for those who are not very good at repairing windows. |
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