Backup went wrong

Scubas · #1 06-24-2003, 06:37 PM

I have a problem with my machine, which I hope someone out there could help me with.

Basics: I run a Athlon XP 1800+ with a 512MB DDR333 RAM. Via KT400 motherboard with intergrated sound, network, fireware and Radeon 9000 Pro Graphics card. I have Four HDDs all different makes and sizes, two are connected using RAID. OS Microsoft XP version 2002

Problem: I was using up to a month ago one HDD for C:. The problem was it was only 2Gb. Over time this got full and I was running for some time with only 10Mb of free space. So I went out a purchased a small 20GB drive. To make the transfer I decided to create a backup of C:, (using the backup tool) on to the new HDD, then make the switch. This did not go to plan. For some reason all the files were not copied. All the prgrams in C: were not copied. When I first booted the new drive, all appeared fine until it got stuck on my desktop, I realised after some time that explorer was not copied. I went through all the programs and found over 100 Mb missing. I then decided to take the old c: out and put it into another machine. I did this as I thought maybe if the machine is using the C: drive it can not copy all the files. So in my other machine I did the back up. This time more files were copied but still not all. By this time I was fed up and So I stuck my XP Pro disk in and run an upgrade. All went fine and I thought all was back to normal. The problem is I can no longer access the registery, not with regedit or regedt32. What happens when I type either command is the program runs for a second and then closes. The same happens with the task manager.

Any Ideas??

scouse · #2 06-24-2003, 07:04 PM

do a repair using your xp disc, when you ahve booted up with your xp disc in and you get to the point were it asks you to either choose install xp or repair click on install xp then the next screen you get the offer of repair again this time choose repair.

it will go through what looks like a full install but all it is doing is repairing at the same time leaving your files and so on as they are.

hopefully this will sort your problem out for you.

remember also when you do a repair like this one thing you ahve to do is reinstall service pack 1 and any other M$ updates again because the repair sets the computer to a state without the updates

snowmonkey · #3 06-25-2003, 11:05 AM

you can follow scouse's advise and fix your problem. Here is an advise if you are going to upgarde again (I don't think a 20 gig will last you that long )... get a copy on Notron Ghost 7.5,, this program does "MAGIC" ,, just plug in you new drive as primary slave and reimage your hard drive to a larger one ,, after imageing is done just plug the new dirve as primary master,, it does everything for you (Partiontable, resizing of new drive)

cheers

Scubas · #4 06-25-2003, 02:51 PM

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunatly it did not work. Got any other ideas??
I still have the old HDD and could try the Ghost idea. One thing I left out of my post was I did try this using Ghost 2003. It was all going okay, when it said it had to reboot to run Ghost. Once it rebooted it came up with Missing Operating System. After some trail and error, I worked out the Ghost parition was fat 16 and so could not read the NTFS partition. Can Ghost read NTFS???

Thanks in advance