This might be fixed in the latest version of Ghost - 2003 works for me, so I haven't ungraded yet. So real, in fact, that temporarily disabling the "old" drive became SOP at two companies I worked for. You can then shut it down, reattach the old drive, and reboot into Windows.Īs I say, this only happens around 5% of the time, but as someone that's ghosted 2000+ machines in my day, it's very real. The easy way to fix this is to simply unplug the old drive (or array) after ghosting and let Windows boot fully into the OS (from the new, ghosted drive). ![]() You boot off the CD, run Ghost and reboot into Windows and. Let's say you buy a bigger hard drive, and install it as master, with the old drive switched to slave ('cos you want to reformat it as a data drive once Ghost is done). One long-standing bug in Ghost is that if you leave the original disk in the drive when rebooting after cloning, around 5% of the time you'll get an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error. If the trial version doesn't work, then what's to say the retail version won't do the same? And furthermore, why is it so freaking difficult to clone a RAID array? ![]() I'm hesitant to buy the retail versions of some of the programs listed. Otherwise, I'd use the Windows Automated System Recovery. Acronis True Image 10 (trial version) - Won't even install, says I don't have enough permission.Casper SE (trial version) - The copy isn't bootable.DriveClone 3.01 (trial version) - The copy isn't bootable.DriveImage XML - Says it can't lock the destination drive, and quits.It treats my RAID array as separate drives. HDClone 3.2 - The free version can only copy from one single disk to another.When copying in Windows, fails to copy critical OS files, resulting in un-bootable copy. WD Data Lifeguard Tools 11.3 (came with the 160GB drive) - When copying in DOS, spits out an error and quits.Norton Ghost 2003 - Apparently not compatible with SP2, copy isn't bootable.XXCOPY - Fails to copy several critical OS files, resulting in an un-bootable copy. ![]() Here are the disk cloning utilities I've tried, and the results: I've tried 8 disk cloning utilities so far, with no luck. I've been trying to find a disk cloning utility to backup my WinXP boot drive.
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