Can I just 'Ghost' my Win2k to install a new hard drive? [norton ghost] [promise controller]
Q: Hi there,
1. I have an 17 GB hard drive right now and Im running out of room, plus I want a ATA100 drive. If I upgrade to a 60GB or 80GB hard drive and my current account as a slave, could I just use Norton Ghost to ghost on my Windows 2000 Server 17 GB to install the new hard drive? I did this with Windows 98SE, but not 2k, so I wanted check.
2. I was a Promise controller card to add to run at ATA100 with the new hard drive, so I just put the new disk and leave the other hard drive setup on the motherboard (along with my other connection 4.3 GB, yes that would be 3 hard disks), is not it?
3. Where do I get the master and slave settings with a controller card, or does it matter?
4. The computer can know which disk to boot to the ghost after surgery? If not, how is this set?
5. Something else I should know! I have never used a controller card, but since I have 4 IDE items and my board does not have ATA100, I have the controller card to a hard drive and add my other account at the same time.
Thank you very much! I appreciate all the help you!
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Re:I've used Ghost with 2k,nt,server,98se with no problems. The best way to do it is to use the Ghost Boot Disk. Very nice. 1 floppy and its done. Ghosted about 16gigs in about 15 min to a 40gig (both western digital) very easy. Need some help… guy@core.com
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Re:<< ) Just ghost is not very good with WIn2K / XP. You need to use Sysprep. I am not an expert in that, try to look things up on Microsoft's site. At least change the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent Version\Winlogon\Userinit (see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q249321). >>
You should not have any problem ghosting a W2K hard drive when you will using it on the machine. The only time you want to use SysPrep is when you are going to be ghosting multiple units and need to make sure the SID information or hardware information is recreated.
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Re:I use a promise ultra66 pci controller for one year and a half now, and I never had to setup my bios to boot from SCSI. Can I ghost my harddrive like guy did under XP?
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Re:Excellent! Thank you very much all!
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Re:<< guy:
OK, so what about when you change physical hard drives? Doesn't Windows 2000 overwrite the boot sector? Does Ghost move that over?
Basically, I just need to know if I can simple install my new hard drive and Ghost my Windows 2000 installation over from another hard drive and have it functioning perfectly without any hassles…? >>
Yes you can. I do it quite often. I upgraded from a 13 gig dual boot to a 40 gig dual boot. My 13 was split into 2 drives and I wanted my 40 into 3. So I fdisked and formatted the 3 partitions. I then ghosted over my Win98 and Win2K to the proper new partitions. I took out the old drive and it booted fine. You should have no problems at all!
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Re:guy:
OK, so what about when you change physical hard drives? Doesn't Windows 2000 overwrite the boot sector? Does Ghost move that over?
Basically, I just need to know if I can simple install my new hard drive and Ghost my Windows 2000 installation over from another hard drive and have it functioning perfectly without any hassles…?
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Re:I use ghost all the time with Windows 2000. I have one 40 gb hard drive split into a 2 partitions: 5 and 35. Windows and apps are installed on the 5gb, everything else goes to the 35gb.
When I need to ghost, I boot up to dos using an old Win98 boot disk. Then I run ghost, and restore. Pretty simple.
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Re:Thanks guy!
If anyone else knows exactly how the ghosting process should work with Windows 2000, I would appreciate your comments!
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Re:1) Just ghost is not very good with WIn2K / XP. You need to use Sysprep. I am not an expert in that, try to look things up on Microsoft's site. At least change the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrent Version\Winlogon\Userinit (see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q249321).
2) Yes, although you need to set up the boot device (see below).
3) Doesn't matter, this is set up in the drives, like regular IDE.
4) You need to tell the computer to boot from SCSI in the BIOS.
5) Oh, no question 5:) Do add the drivers for the Promise before the ghosting. Put the card in the computer with the new drive empty. Let the OS discover the new card and give it the drivers. Then reboot to the ghost diskette and do the copy.
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