ghost question

ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
k my puter is going crazy and i ordered new parts, can i ghost my C: from my old machine and put it on the new parts ( same hard drive) ??

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Yes, but I suggest you do a repair installation if you bought a motherboard.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited December 2003
    i was gonna format the hard drive tot he new mobo then ghost everything back over to it, is that ok and posible lol, i just wanna know i got everything straight before i shoot myself in the foot
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Nope.. u can't do that with Ghost. It takes a snapshot of your hard drive EXACTLY as it is at the time of the snapshot. That includes boot record, file system structure.. the works.

    You would have to repair install as Ghost is not gonna be the answer. Ghost is good for when you are changing hard drives or keeping system images on a server :)
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited December 2003
    aww crap
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    It will work.... but you will still have all the old drivers and stuff from the old machine. Secondly, as you are Ghosting the drive, when you finish, you will need to run Partition Magic and reassign the unused space on the drive to the current partition.

    Shortys answer is more of an "Its not feasable" rather than a "Its not possible".

    As BH said, you should be able to Ghost, repair and then reassign space.

    NS
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited December 2003
    i got a 10 gig partition on an 80 gig drive, the 10 is for windows and windows programs thats what i ghosted to CD's
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Only way I know is to ghost it onto the drive with new parts in, but keep your CDs available for later as you might have to do this the hard way. Then, do a repair install at first boot, boot right from CD. You will, if the repair works, get to probably reauth the thing during the first boot after the repair install.

    Ghosting and trying to boot to HD directly after will result in a registry FUBAR, and you will get to reghost to even try to repair the thing. what I would do is this, I woudl back up partitions, but if it is too late for that then I think you have a mess unless you can do so with most of the old hardware in box still.

    I am quite sure part of this is anti-pirating stuff built into widnows operating automagically at first boot, if you change a mobo you are changing more than the allowed hardware, and typically Microsoft has told me to reinstall.

    IF you can boot box with old hardware again, and ghost back and then recover what you want to data CDs or to a My Documents backup after moving what you want into My Documents with subfolders and then burn that to CD, that is best way to get yourself an easily recoverable set of data that you can actually put back without fighting the ghost all-or-nothing strategy of working. The only othr way I know to do this, is to ghost to a second hard drive, relaod on what will be your boot HD with the ghosted drive disconnected, then use Partition magic to make the C: on other HD unbootable, then treat as data drives for XP's new install. You need to work one HD connected as a time, until XP is laoded on where you want it and the ghosted one is PM altered so as not to be bootable and what I would do is take a small sticky label, and LABEL each HD where you can see it from outside of box. You will get less errors if you remember whihc HD is which adn jumper accordingly or jumper cable select if those HDs will let you do that and run them singly and then use cable coinnection to determine which is master, but jumper and reconnect cable with box powered oiff and unplugged. Might it be possible a friend who lives close by has a spare working HD you could borrow for this??? Say a 20-30 gig HD???

    John.
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited December 2003
    Here's what we do at work. Make a ghost image of your old pc.
    Install your new hardware.
    Ghost the image to the new pc.
    Pop in a windows cd, and run a repair. Do not use the quick repair option as it does not properly fix everything. Do the thorough repair.

    You should be good to go. :)
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