Ghost 9.0's Copy Drive, Cloning & SP2

"JP" wrote in message
88.18...
I'm still looking for a program other than Ghost that will work with XP
SP2 and be capable of copying (cloning, not imaging) one internal hard
drive to another, as I am not confident that I can resolve this issue
with Ghost.

Did you try the earlier version of Ghost (the one not based on DriveImage)?
That is Ghost 2003, and runs from a DOS boot off of a floppy or bootable CD.

I use it with XPPro SP2 (although I have to admit, I mostly do imaging as a
form of backup.. I don't restore from images very often.). Our workplace
uses it to clone drives.

I always feel more confident about cloning/imaging from a boot (DOS) that is
totally independent of the drives being cloned/imaged..
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote in
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"JP" wrote:
[......] it's very interesting that you are using PQ's
DriveCopy 7.1 with SP2. I was using DriveImage
(which includes DriveCopy) 2002. I don't know if
that's earlier or later than your version 7.1 as I can
find no other version number. If you or someone
else knows, please let me know.


Drive Image 7.0 was the last version issued on CD
by PowerQuest (that I know of). Versions 7.1 and
7.2 (possibly called "7.01" and "7.02" were
downloadable fixes to bugs in 7.0 . The included
copy of Drive Image 2002 worked only miserably
for me as it wouldn't do DMA and it took more
than an hour to copy 20GB. When I finally figured
out what .NET Framework was and how to get it,
its installation solved the version 7.0 problem.


Also, how would you reinstall (only?) .NET Framework?


Start/Settings/Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs/
Microsoft .NET Framework/Remove

Then download another copy from Microsoft and
install it again. For version 1.1 of the .NET Framework
Redistributable Package, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...lyID=262d25e3-
f589-
4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&displaylang=en

If that doesn't work, try re-installing Ghost 9.0, as it's
possible that it might need Framework to already
be there when it's installed. (In fact, the PowerQuest
User's Guide said that explicitly.)

*TimDaniels*



Well, I had and I removed Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 then reinstalled
from Microsoft's site to no avail. I have the same problem with Ghost
and PowerQuest's DriveCopy still doesn't work but it now has a different
problem. It displays

"Error 91: Disk Manager has been detected on drive 1, but disk manager
is not running. If you are booting from a floppy, remove the floppy
disk and reboot. Press and hold the Space Bar key as your computer
restarts. When prompted insert your boot floppy and continue booting."

[I was not booting from a floppy.]
The only thing I haven't tried is the suggestion to uninstall/reinstall
Ghost after the reinstall of .NET Framework 1.1. I hesitate to do this
as this Ghost is intertwined with Norton SystemWorks Premier 2005 which
includes AnitVirus (the only program Symantec has that I've tried and
works correctly almost all of the time). I would have to uninstall the
entire package and reinstall, gambling that it would all go smoothly
including reinstatement of my subscription. A tall order given
Symantec's track record. In taking that risk I would be betting that
this is the trick that works while all others failed. I would do it if
someone had this specific issue that was solved by this method, but as
far as I can tell, that's not the case. Interestingly, a Google search
of

E7C3000F Ghost

doesn't produce much. I'm about ready to give up and hope that with
time Symantec identifies and/or fixes this issue.

Thank you all.

"Aloke Prasad" wrote in
:


"JP" wrote in message
88.18...
I'm still looking for a program other than Ghost that will work with
XP SP2 and be capable of copying (cloning, not imaging) one internal
hard drive to another, as I am not confident that I can resolve this
issue with Ghost.

Did you try the earlier version of Ghost (the one not based on
DriveImage)? That is Ghost 2003, and runs from a DOS boot off of a
floppy or bootable CD.

I use it with XPPro SP2 (although I have to admit, I mostly do imaging
as a form of backup.. I don't restore from images very often.). Our
workplace uses it to clone drives.

I always feel more confident about cloning/imaging from a boot (DOS)
that is totally independent of the drives being cloned/imaged..

Thanks for that advice. I'll try to find a copy. But is there no CURRENT
program that will copy (clone, not image) from DOS?

JP wrote:
"Aloke Prasad" wrote in
:


"JP" wrote in message
88.18...
I'm still looking for a program other than Ghost that will work with
XP SP2 and be capable of copying (cloning, not imaging) one internal
hard drive to another, as I am not confident that I can resolve this
issue with Ghost.

Did you try the earlier version of Ghost (the one not based on
DriveImage)? That is Ghost 2003, and runs from a DOS boot off of a
floppy or bootable CD.

I use it with XPPro SP2 (although I have to admit, I mostly do
imaging as a form of backup.. I don't restore from images very
often.). Our workplace uses it to clone drives.

I always feel more confident about cloning/imaging from a boot (DOS)
that is totally independent of the drives being cloned/imaged..

Thanks for that advice. I'll try to find a copy. But is there no
CURRENT program that will copy (clone, not image) from DOS?

Ghost 2003's (included in the boxed version of Ghost 9 or present in the
Ghost folder on the NSW 2005 Premier CD) forensic copy using the -ia (and in
conjunction with the -ib) switch. It performs a sector based copy (clone) in
the DOS environment...

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"

"JP" wrote in message
88.18...

I always feel more confident about cloning/imaging from a boot (DOS)
that is totally independent of the drives being cloned/imaged..

Thanks for that advice. I'll try to find a copy. But is there no CURRENT
program that will copy (clone, not image) from DOS?

www.dfsee.com: DOS and Win2K+.
www.diydatarecovery.nl: DiskPatch

"Eric Gisin" wrote in
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"JP" wrote in message
88.18...

I always feel more confident about cloning/imaging from a boot
(DOS) that is totally independent of the drives being
cloned/imaged..

Thanks for that advice. I'll try to find a copy. But is there no
CURRENT program that will copy (clone, not image) from DOS?

www.dfsee.com: DOS and Win2K+.
www.diydatarecovery.nl: DiskPatch


Thank you for those suggestions Eric, I'll take a look.

"Michael Kimmer" wrote in
:

JP wrote:
"Aloke Prasad" wrote in
:


"JP" wrote in message
88.18...
I'm still looking for a program other than Ghost that will work
with XP SP2 and be capable of copying (cloning, not imaging) one
internal hard drive to another, as I am not confident that I can
resolve this issue with Ghost.

Did you try the earlier version of Ghost (the one not based on
DriveImage)? That is Ghost 2003, and runs from a DOS boot off of a
floppy or bootable CD.

I use it with XPPro SP2 (although I have to admit, I mostly do
imaging as a form of backup.. I don't restore from images very
often.). Our workplace uses it to clone drives.

I always feel more confident about cloning/imaging from a boot (DOS)
that is totally independent of the drives being cloned/imaged..

Thanks for that advice. I'll try to find a copy. But is there no
CURRENT program that will copy (clone, not image) from DOS?

Ghost 2003's (included in the boxed version of Ghost 9 or present in
the Ghost folder on the NSW 2005 Premier CD) forensic copy using the
-ia (and in conjunction with the -ib) switch. It performs a sector
based copy (clone) in the DOS environment...


Now THAT looks like it might be just what I need. I have a difficult week
of work ahead of me, but I WILL be trying it this weekend.

Thank you so much Michael and best regards.

JP wrote:

I'm looking for a reliable "cloning" program. What I want to do is simply
clone (not image) my C: drive to my D: drive, so that in the event of a C:
drive failure I could just unplug the data cable from C:, plug it into D:,
adjust the BIOS, boot and go with a hard drive that would be identical to
where I last backed up by making the clone and without doing anything else.
(This is a cable-select configuration.) I had PowerQuest's DirveImage
which had a utility called DriveCopy that did this very well, but when I
installed Service Pack 2 to my Win XP, it no longer worked. So I bought
Norton SystemWorks Premier 2005 which includes Ghost 9.0. Ghost's Copy
Drive feature appears to be terribly flawed with SP2, yielding error
message E7C3000F among other problems. Symantec's technical support
acknowledged that it is a known issue with no solution (but no word of this
on their Web site). Even worse, they gave me time-consuming possible
solutions which cost me many hours of testing to no avail. I even used
Memtest86. I see a lot of information on imaging on these boards but very
little on simply copying (cloning) one internal hard drive to another. I
looked into Seagate's DiskWizard, but the folks there correctly state that
it's not made for this and it doesn't quite work right for cloning. Drive
Snapshot apparently does not have this capability. I'm looking for a
program that will do what PowerQuest's DriveCopy did, and after cloning I
need to be able to immediately test the results by powering down, switching
the data cable from C: to D:, boot into the BIOS then directly into XP with
exactly what I had on the old C:---just like I used to do when I would test
DriveCopy's clone. And I need this program to be known to work with SP2.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have a look at Casper XP. By far the best cloning package I have ever
used - basically a couple of clicks, copies 8GB in about 5 minutes.
Swap drives around, boots straight away.

I've just finished BETA testing this - it knocks the spots off the
competition.


Odie
--

RetroData
Data Recovery Experts
www.retrodata.co.uk

"Odie Ferrous" wrote:
Have a look at Casper XP. By far the best cloning
package I have ever used - basically a couple of clicks,
copies 8GB in about 5 minutes. Swap drives around,
boots straight away.

I've just finished BETA testing this - it knocks the spots
off the competition.


At Future Systems Solutions' website
http://www.fssdev.com/

Review in PCWorld (June 3, 2004):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1606870,00.asp

*TimDaniels*

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:23:13 UTC, "Eric Gisin" wrote:

Thanks for that advice. I'll try to find a copy. But is there no CURRENT
program that will copy (clone, not image) from DOS?

www.dfsee.com: DOS and Win2K+.

Plus Linux and OS2 versions in the same package :-)

Downloadable version is FULL function, no crippleware.
Regsitration required for non-evaluation use only.

Regards, JvW

--
Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee: http://www.dfsee.com