Windows XP cannot finish booting after ghost restore

[jeanfrancois]

Hi,

I bought a new computer (P4, 512MB, 60GB) with Windows XP Home installed. The HD (Seagate ST360020A 60GB), master on the primary IDE controller) is partitionned: C: (NTFS, Windows NT), D: (NTFS, manufacturer folders for drivers and tools), E: (FAT32, manufacturer recovery tool).
As I want to be able to restore the OS to a safe state (even in case of crash disk), I installed a second HD (Western Digital Caviar 20GB) as master on the secondary IDE controller and formatted it FAT32 to enable Ghost to write on it and started to make a test:
Using Norton Ghost 2002 (PE), I made an image of the system partition to the FAT32 partition (E of the main HD and restored this image on the second HD. Then I booted the system from the main HD and using Disk Manager marked the partition of the second HD as "active".
I disconnected the main HD and connected the second HD as master on the primary IDE controller.
The system starts booting but after displaying "Windows XP Home Edition" it shows the Windows XP logo on the standard blue background and just hangs up. I tried the other ways to strat the system ("Démarrage sans échec", and so on) with the same result.

Thank you for help / Jean-François

 

[conceptumator]

I think I understand what you're trying to do, but try this to make your life a little easier:

Ghost your primary partition (C to the E: partition you mentioned. In case of an operatin system failure, you can boot from a Ghost Boot Disk (the program will make on for you)and do a restore to C: from the image on E:

As to the problem you are having with the method you described, here are a couple of ideas:

1. Verify that your BIOS is set right for the new drive configuration (i.e., changing the 60 GB Seagate out for the 20 GB on the primary IDE port).

2. You restored an image of an NTFS partition to a FAT32 partition; I don't know if this is a problem, but I would be a little skeptic of it.

3. You mentioned using Disk Manager; I assume this is the Seagate DDO utility. I have had trouble with this utility and XP during XP installs, so this could be part of your problem. Did you need this utility to make the drive work with your MB or ???

Good luck!

 

[AlexIT]

Also, XP is very hardware sensitive. If you have this installed and then make major hardware changes it thinks you have moved/copied it to another computer. You may need to re-register XP once you get a functional ghost onto the new harddrive, as this is one of the hardware devices it considers to be unchangeable...

Alex