Norton Ghost - clone SCSI partition to IDE partition

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21 July 2004, 01:27 PM

DazV

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Norton Ghost - clone SCSI partition to IDE partition

Need to move a WinXP Sp1a installation from a SCSI drive to an IDE

I cloned the scsi partition to the IDE drive

IDE won't boot - says after POST, boot disk failure, insert bootable disk

Tried running recovery console off the winxp disk, which finds the c:\windows installation on the IDE drive no problem - just can't get it to BOOT

Any ideas ?

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21 July 2004, 01:58 PM

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From memory windows will freak out when changing the disk controller.

On windows 2000 I did a repair installation from the boot CD to resolve it.

I'm sure there is amore intelligent way of doing it with XP

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21 July 2004, 02:40 PM

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after a bit of messing around - plugged both scsi and ide drives in together. Booted of the scsi drive

Went into disk manager in windows admin tools and set partition to "active" - did the trick!

Now getting a paging file problem - apparent the page file doesn't exist or is too small - so I go in and set it to 384MB and reboot - but the error keeps appearing! DOH!

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