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Allan in NE

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Yes, I know it's the wrong place, but there are some pretty sharp folks that ride this site. :>)

I want to move my entire current XP-Pro NTFS OS/partition from it's current IDE drive to a SCSI RAID.

Can I do a hot ghost between the two or is that MBR gonna deal me fits? Don't think a total DOS disk snapshot will work.......right?

This is just on my daily driver, so there's no "emergency" involved here. Would just like to get some "snap" out of the old gal. :>)

Thanks,

Allan
 
My thinking is that the "hot" image will copy everything "downstream" from the OS boot?

Appreciate the help,

Allan
 
Allan is this a test? :)~})

You guys in your computer talk are way above my head. You just as well talk french, it would mean just as much to me.

Gary
 
Hey Gary, I'm with you.

The only thing I was thinking of doing to prevent a crash is to get an external hard drive and keep backing up everything on that box, so when mine does crash I have a copy.....no French here.
 
Why not give it a try? Worst case is it won't work. Just disconnect the IDE drive before turning it back on to make sure it doesn't get trashed.

I haven't had much success speeding up a computer with a faster drive though. I assume you've gone through the services that are running and cleaned out any you don't need?
 
I just went though a hard drive crash a couple of months ago, and I did lose a bunch of stuff on my hard drive, although I had all the important stuff backed up on CD's and flash drives.

I looked into a new computer because that one was five years old, but I couldn't find anything with Windows XP, just Vista and I didn't want Vista. So, I had a new hard drive installed in my old computer, with double the capacity. A week later I found a new Dell unit with XP instead of Vista so I went for it. I relegated my old one to my shop for word processing, repair orders, etc.

Now a question I have. My new Dell has the capability for online backup. Does anyone know how secure online backup is? It makes sense, but I'm interested in the security aspect of it.
 
Not my area of experience, but I think you should be able to ghost w/mbr and then FDISK /MBR the destination drive with a Win98 boot disk which would let the system see it as a new HDD?

If you do the image hot the destination will be assigned a drive letter. I would assume this would be an issue if the drives see each other the first time you boot from that image. If they don't see each other, not sure if you would have to delete the mounted devices registry key on that destination drive or not.

Lot of this stuff is trial and error ain't it?
 

We (the IT shop I run at the university) and the IT dept I do contract work for at a local branch of a nationwide corporation, have pretty much given up on Ghost.

It works OK a lot of the time, but there are too many spurious, intermittent, and impossible to track down, weird problems that pop up later... For example, sporadic loss of trusts between client machines and Active Directory.

With such disparate hard drive platforms, I"d suspect you will probably just get a blue-screen-of-death upon boot on SCSI. That often happens even between Ghostgs of different brands of IDE hardware, much less IDE and SCSI.

If you really want to try it, your best bet would be to use Microsoft"s sysprep tool to force a hardware re-initialization upon the first reboot. For that to work, you"ll have to make sure the appropriate SCSI and RAID drivers are pre-loaded into the Windows image you are trying to Ghost beforehand, so it can plug and play on the initial boot on SCSI...

Good luck with all that!

:)

Howard
 
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