Hi Bill, any luck resolving this issue? I too am experiencing exactly the same problem. I have a 40G and I'm ghosting to 200G. The boot will only go to the point of showing the login screen but no users, shutdown option etc.
Does your original drive have multiple partitions? Mine has two, Win98 (which will boot fine after the clone) and WindowsXP.
I have tried the following with no success:
- Ghost and the utility that came with the drive.
- Turning off the pagefile prior to the ghosting
- Booting from the load CD and doing a repair.
- Disabling the login screen. Then it will let you put in your login information, start to login then immediately go back to the login screen.
- Kept the partition sizes the same as the originals.
- Tried disk to disk. Then also went to image files and back to the disk.
All of the above yields the same results. One additional caveat, if I put the original back in the system as the slave, it will boot from the new drive.
My two thoughts right now are:
- it's an issue with the larger drive. I have an extra 40G drive I'm going to clone to and see what happens.
- This has been a multi-boot machine for all kinds of OS'es in the past so my current drive letters are "C" (Win98) and "J" (WinXP). When I reboot with the original drive as the slave my, drive letters are D and E respectively and the slave original drive is the C and J.
Well any thoughts are much appreciated.
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Originally Posted by curtisannev
Yes I’m sure we all relate to the pain of rebuilding your failed c drive .. not fun .. usually takes me about 25 hours or so to load 25 programs and the data again.
Please never again; now I have a dual hard drive machine
2X 120 gig identical hard drives and ghost 9 to make a mirror ghost.
If c: drive fails I want to boot up from the ghosted drive
The ghosting seems to be complete with all the files, but when I make the ghosted drive the boot drive windows xp will not allow me to log in .. just keeps resetting to ask me to log in again and again.
Was thinking a xp repair might be in order.
I don’t care if I have to re-initialize my Microsoft office software, I just want to make sure this back drive loads
Can anyone help me here!!
Thanks alot
Thanks a lot Bill  |