dehydratedchicken Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Hi, i've jsut went and gota new 300GB SATA HDD as a replacement for my old 80GB The 80Gb has my windows isntallation and work saved on it and i would like to copy this hard drive directly to the new oneI have tried Norton Ghost but it hasnt worked for me - it keeps creating a errror message but I think it could be because of the compatibility issue wth Symantec products and Windows Pro x64Is there any software which could help?Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 I've done a bit of searching about and am under the impression that Norton Ghost v9 might be a bit more compatible with SATA drives. I did find this thread on another forum, perhaps you might find it useful.http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-267353/tm.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 There's a variety of reasons why you might get issues like this and if you go to a number of forums you will find a fairly even balance of people for and against software like Norton Ghost. What I can say is that I'm running a mirrored RAID system with two 200GB SATA drives that are backed up by Norton Ghost 9.0 and Norton GoBack.Due to a known issue with the motherboard (MSI Neo P2) and the SATA drives (Maxtor) I've had to rebuild the RAID system once, and on this occasion when the original drives were reinstated Norton Ghost performed perfectly well. Because I also try out a lot of software I have also used Norton GoBack many times and I am delighted with it.What version of Ghost are you using and where are you saving the 80GB cloned image to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Sorry, that last bit should read clone or image. Are you trying to do a direct copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehydratedchicken Posted June 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 I'm using Norton Ghost v9I've got a 300Gb SATA200GB IDEand 80G IDE connected upThe 200GB IDE is just used for backups and and isnt really much of a problemMy OS and data is on the 80GB and I'm trying to use the HDD to HDD copy function in Norton Ghost to directly move the 80GB to the 300GB SATAI get a error when its on the initializing mode (just before copying) saying something about a virtual drive driver missingI've also noticed that when selecting the drives to copy from and to, it shows the actual hard disk size properly but when I click on the drive it shows the 300GB as being a 71GB with 14GB free and something similar with the 200GB (this is at the bottom next to the purple and blue boxes)This is probably my most expensive upgrade ever and is definately causing me the most problems - cant wait to get it all out of the way and enjoy some happy gaming time :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=31998 - same problem it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehydratedchicken Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 thanks for that linkthe difference between mine and his problem is that he's runnign a RAID configuration whereas I've only got 1 SATA drive so thats not possbile for meI'll keep looking at that forum for updates but if anyone on here finds a solution or a different software that I can use then I would be grateful if you can psot hereThanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I have tried Norton Ghost but it hasnt worked for me - it keeps creating a errror message but I think it could be because of the compatibility issue wth Symantec products and Windows Pro x64Thanks in advanceHaving looked at this again and considering the comments in some of the links I agree that this may be a 64 bit OS / 32 bit application problem.I'm out of ideas at the moment - good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehydratedchicken Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Thanks, I've found something called casper xphttp://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/features.aspxthe free trial woouldnt be very appropriate as it creates a partion on the new hard drive depending on the amount of data being copiedIf someone has tried the full version and tried it then please let me know if tis going to be worth the purchaseIt says it supports SATA but nothing about Windows x64.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I have found very little or no support for Windows XP x64. Any programs that do not flat out say "we support x64" probably wont, and if they do, it's by luck.**Not designed for use with Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.I believe x64 is identified to some programs as windows 2003. Perhaps this is not the right program for you. They have a trial. I would try it before I buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehydratedchicken Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I notied that they had a trial but the trial creates a partiotion which is only the size of your data, if you have a 300gb but only 80gb of data then it wil partition the 300gb into 220 and 80gbI'm guessing that if I tried to merge the partitions back to 300GB I'd end up formatting the hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Using fdisk, yes. If you use yet another third party program, such as Norton Partition Magic, which can merge, split, create and delete partitons, and more, you will not loose any data. But this would require more programs than you need. I would leave this as a last resort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 I get a error when its on the initializing mode (just before copying) saying something about a virtual drive driver missingPresumably this is the 64 bit driver for Ghost needed by XP x64 Pro.I also wonder whether, or not, there's an issue with trying to copy across a 32 bit OS onto a 64 bit OS, since I guess that this is what you had on your initial 80BG HD.It's an interesting one this since I've thought about playing with XP x64 Pro but I think it might screw up my RAID system. I'm thinking that I might have to set it up on a completely different HD, say an IDE one and disable the RAID SATA setup.Once again good luck and keep us posted.Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehydratedchicken Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 the only OS I have windows x64, i installed it before getting my 300gb by copying the data onto the 200gb and then formatting and copying the data back overthat process takes ages plus after installation I'd have to isntall everythign again and its not worth the hassleI guess if I dont find a solution I could leave my configuration like thisI havent been ableto try a RAID config because I only have one SATA drive but if I get rid of this 80 then I might get another one to mess around with.My experience with x64 isnt all that great, the laoding up of the computer is much quicker but when it comes to running programs they all run the same as they used to on my Athlon 2000+, I am guessing this is because they are still 32-bit programs, the only 64-but thing I have is windows Media Player which comes on the Windows x64 diskIf I get Norton Ghost running or find another way I will post the solution on hereThanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dehydratedchicken Posted June 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 hi, i got sick of trying to ghost it, the casper XP wouldnt work properly eitherI copied all my data onto the 200GB HDDinstalled windows on the 300gb and then copied the data over onto the 300gbfinally I removed the 80GBThanks for all your help guys!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micken Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Glad you're sorted, I hope everything workd smoothly for you now.Best regards,Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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