Cloned HDD will not work. 1

[DavidLeeRoth]

HI,

I've recently created an image of a win2k pro machine using drive image 5. When I then restore this image onto a second hdd, install it in a machine and switch on the power it appears to boot fine then tells me that I have no page file or the page file is too small. It advises that I should make the page file bigger or to create one. Upon pressing ok I get booted back to the login screen and this cycle keeps going without letting in to the os to change the pagefile.

The problem here is that the doner machine for the image works fine and the pagefile seems big enough. Could this be a problem with drive image 5? We have used it with nt4 for some time without problems.

Cheers,

Paulie

 

[wolluf]

How old is drive image 5? (I usually use ghost for this sort of operation).

Donor installation just single partition on single drive? No zip drives? How exactly did you created the image, restore it to new drive, setup new drive?

It sounds like possibly a drive letter issue (ie, on the cloned drive windows can't create a pagefile on the drive it needs to - so there isn't one. In that case, 2k exhibits symptoms like you are seeing. You could try putting another formatted disk into the machine with cloned drive (this may pick up required drive letter & allow pagefile to be created. Mind you, if windows has been moved from its system drive, you'll have other issues).

Most drive manufacturer's have a utility to allow you to clone old disk to their (new) disk. If this is a one-off, rather than first of many clones, could try that as alternative.

 

[bcastner]

Once you've made a clone on Drive D: with your software, shut down your system.

Do not reboot with your drives in this configuration. If you do... you will need to reclone your secondary drive!

Swap your newly cloned drive to the Master bay, the C: position, and remove your original master drive and set it aside. Do NOT insert it into the secondary bay at this time. This is critical.

Now boot to your newly cloned drive. Windows should permit you to boot, but once you do so, it will prompt that it has finished installing new hardware and will require a reboot.

Windows should now successfully boot to the cloned hard drive without futher issues. You can then shut down and replace your original master hard drive in the secondary bay, or you can return it to the primary bay and place your cloned personal back up copy in the secondary bay.

Either hard drive will function normally and changes to the boot order from the BIOS setup utility can now be used to boot to the drive of your choosing and you can keep both of your hard drives installed within your system.

From the suggestions of Sandra Underhill and Fred Sadek