Kevin, I use Ghost 2000 on 2 machines, one very similar to your setup. It
makes a bootable clone from C: to D: in under 10 minutes. It's a wonderful
thing! The D: that you're trying to write to should be fdisked, formatted,
and scandisk should show it to be a good drive in that machine before you
use Ghost. You probably already know that. I use 15 and 20Gig hard drives
in my PII (BX440) with Maxtor ATA100 card. I tried a 40Gig HD and couldn't
get the machine to use it. Perhaps it's too big or too new for the older
machine. My motherboard has the latest bios available. I was going to look
into new bios or driver for the ATA100 card but decided to just stay with
the smaller drives. The 40 Gig HD is now working well in a newer machine so
perhaps your new motherboard idea is a good one.
If you get Ghost working and want to make things safe and easy, put the two
HD's in removable trays (you need two 5 1/4" external bays) so they can be
easily interchanged. Put each tray on a different IDE channel and set all
HD jumpers to "Master". Then any HD will work in any tray, top or bottom.
If C: (top tray) fails, take the backup clone from the bottom tray (or from
it's padded storage vault), put it in the top tray, and you are "back in
business" in less than a minute. No more worrying about mechanical failure
or installing an unknown program, you can take a chance because you have
backup(s). Get a bunch of extra drawer inserts and HD's and you can do a
lot of nice things. Use different drives for different purposes, different
operating systems, different users, and always feel safe with as many
bootable clone/backups as you want. Run your business during the day on
your HD and let the kids play games at night with their HD. Everybody's
happy and everybody's safe. Use slightly different size drives when
Ghosting so you can differentiate the source drive from the target drive.
If you confused them it would be bad. Hope you get it working Bob.
><< Dear Listers,
> I have a PII 450, 256ram, 16.8gig HD running Win98se. I have a second HD
> (D:), Western Digital 80 gig ATA100 plugged into an ATA100 PCI card. I want
> to copy the contents of C: onto D: and then make D: my boot drive.
>
> I have Norton Ghost but it won't let me place the image of C: onto D:. I
> have a small LAN and it won't let me copy the image to any other networked
> drive. It says I need a corporate edition. But I don't understand why it
> won't let me copy c to d?
>
> Has anyone used that xcopy procedure? If so, does it work and how (step by
> step please, I'm a little slow) do I do it? It's getting kind of
> frustrating
> since I think I'm losing my primary boot drive and want to get the drive
> copied. >>
>
>
>Ok, I re-tried Norton Ghost. It took around 5 hrs and copied 16gigs to a
>non-dos partition and marked it as active. Great huh? Turned out to be
>useless once Ghost was done because Windows no longer saw drive D:.
>
>I tried the one suggestion on using a program called "xxcopy". It sure went
>alot quicker although I'm still not sure if it worked since fdisk reported
>only 10gigs used on the dos partition whereas it listed 16 gigs used on the
>non-dos Ghost created partition.
>
>I disconnected the old C: drive, went into BIOS and tried all of the options
>listed for a boot device (since the WD 80gig is attached to a Siig
>UltraATA/100 PCI card). But to no avail. I then tried attaching the drive
>directly to mobo and it still wouldn't boot.
>
>Should I go back to square one and do the "scorched earth" thing - -
>fdisk,format and try re-copying the old C: drive? Or is it better to go out
>and get a mobo that supports ATA 100? TIA, Kevin Nowicki
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