HELP with cloning

davidclayton

got a copy of norton ghost 2003 off a mate,
trying to clone win xp [+programs, etc] from 80gig to 160gig HDD.

norton installs grand, and appears to work,
but when it goes into "pc dos" after the restart,
it just hangs with an egg timer on the Symantec page.

updated it to allow ms dos aswell as pc dos,
and tried it through ms dos instead...
same problem.


so i went looking for some freeware or trials for similar ghosting/cloning software.
most of them don't allow cloning to a larger drive in the trial version.
can anyone recommend one to me?
i don't do regular cloning, and yes i'm a cheapass.

savemejebus

couldn't you just hook up the 2nd drive as slave in your machine, format it and then copy the entire contents of the other drive lock stock and barrel to the new drive, can be done from the msdos prompt (well according to a book i read last week) i have the command at home but can't remember it off hand, it was an xcopy command though

Walter Ego

Afaik PC dos only runs in a shell within windows so you are doomed because windows is still running, files in use etc. Make up a proper MS Dos boot disk and reboot from floppy. Then try to run the dos version of Norton. It should work.

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by davidclayton
got a copy of norton ghost 2003 off a mate,
trying to clone win xp [+programs, etc] from 80gig to 160gig HDD.

norton installs grand, and appears to work,
but when it goes into "pc dos" after the restart,
it just hangs with an egg timer on the Symantec page.

updated it to allow ms dos aswell as pc dos,
and tried it through ms dos instead...
same problem

i had the exact same problem. never actually resolved it tbh. what happened to you after it hung, like were u able to get past this stage as i had to reinstall xp in the end.

would be interested if you get a solution

kaimera

use ghost to create a boot dvd if possible or boot cd.

just dont loose any install disks

davidclayton

tried doing it from a boot floppy also, same problem, but it was from pc dos, so i'll try ms dos boot ghost and get back to ye.

to prevent reinstalling,
norton keeps trying to ghost every time you boot,
so i just removed the new [sata] drive and ghost said it couldn't perform the ghost,
and returned to windows. same as before.

also tried a program called xxcopy. [newer version of xcopy]
seemed to do the trick [works from command prompt]
but when it was finished it only copied 30gigs instead of 50!
went into some of the folders, and they were empty!
even the windows folder!

dave

davidclayton

tried to ghost boot disk from floppy on ms dos...
same egg timer freezing screen, and when i press a key:

"an internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted. change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file, and then try again."

what!?!


help?