Installing New Hard Drive

**freddy** · June 10th, 2002, 06:56 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Capricorn:
Hi again Freddy. I was backing up 2.45gb of data. I have deleted some of my progams then used my 3 discs to restore, and the programs were back in again, so that looks OK. I then tried creating some more discs by using the compressing method. This took 2 Discs, and I opted to make the discs bootable, but when I tried restoring them I got error messages and a sign saying it could not read the file. Again they wouldn't boot. So that was no good. I still think it has something to do with NTFS. I think that Drive Image has got around the NTFS problems OK but it is quite expensive, compared to Ghost, and the trial download is about 20mb, much too big for my dial up connection. Thanks again for your help.<hr /></blockquote>you are winning , good .

what are u using to make bootable?

as i said i was,nt using ntfs (xp) ,,,i do know that if i re do my 2k - which is now ntfs , it looks at a non exist drive ?

make a win98 bootable disk and cut it down (as shown above and add d:\ghostXX in autoexec if u want (im not sure how) but i shold be able to send u a image of my floppy boot , which u can expand to a floppy and use as your boot files ,

if u need u can e-mail me

freddy

**Capricorn** · June 10th, 2002, 11:21 AM

The floppy discs that I made with Ghost are bootable. It asked me if I wanted to make the CDs that I made bootable and I chose yes, but they don't boot. The only way to restore NTFS files, as far as I can see, is to boot to the floppy. Choose Disk from image, point to the CD in the Rom Drive, it then makes you insert the Licence Number, so it is as well to make a copy of that so you have it ready. And it copies from the CDs to the hard drive asking for the second and third CDs when needed. So that seems to work fine. I couldn't see any way to select files so I just had to back up all my Hard Drive. I am going to experiment a bit more to see if I can just back up my operating system with all the updates on it. I don't mind installing my software as I have all my CDs, but I am not sure how I am going to format my Drive except by using the XP disc.

**freddy** · June 10th, 2002, 02:00 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Capricorn:
The floppy discs that I made with Ghost are bootable. It asked me if I wanted to make the CDs that I made bootable and I chose yes, but they don't boot. The only way to restore NTFS files, as far as I can see, is to boot to the floppy. Choose Disk from image, point to the CD in the Rom Drive, it then makes you insert the Licence Number, so it is as well to make a copy of that so you have it ready. And it copies from the CDs to the hard drive asking for the second and third CDs when needed. So that seems to work fine. I couldn't see any way to select files so I just had to back up all my Hard Drive. I am going to experiment a bit more to see if I can just back up my operating system with all the updates on it. I don't mind installing my software as I have all my CDs, but I am not sure how I am going to format my Drive except by using the XP disc.<hr /></blockquote>PS: using a ghost image u do NOT need to f/disk or format ,,,just take a new drive and load image on it !!!! if u were using a small (under 32 gig) on xp and were under fat for example u could then experiment converting to NTFS , to check out security/speed etc. - i know u are on ntfs now ,,,to go to fat now use a 98 bootable cd and f/disk format etc.

good luch freddy

**Capricorn** · June 11th, 2002, 07:42 AM

That's interesting about not needing to format when using a Ghost image. I hadn't realised that. I did use Fat when I was using Win 98SE, but since going over to XP I decided to use NTFS. I have to say that XP is very stable and I much prefer it to Win98. Thanks for your help on this topic. Best Wishes

**freddy** · June 11th, 2002, 08:36 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Capricorn:
That's interesting about not needing to format when using a Ghost image. I hadn't realised that. I did use Fat when I was using Win 98SE, but since going over to XP I decided to use NTFS. I have to say that XP is very stable and I much prefer it to Win98. Thanks for your help on this topic. Best Wishes<hr /></blockquote>again , glad your winning ,,,,changing subject to xp ,,,,have got corp version (services rendered , to billy) and 2k pro (again services rendered to billy) ,,,,CANNOT CANNOT get my head around XP ,,,can use 2k and i like it ,, but *luddy xp with its candy and restore!!!!

by the time u edit every thing to a "stable" usable system (then chuck in another 1g memory - to run the unnessesary services)u are back to good old 2k !!!!

have about 3 ghostings of xp in different configs , and if i get a long weekend from work , i locate a nice drive and play (till i break it)the prog - not the drive!!!.

my machine is used mainly for vid encoding (dvd-vcd) and is set to run a encode (with TMPGEnc) last thing at night , and about 9am daytime (on v-good qlty) ,,,,about 7 hrs a film) ,,,,,2x60g drives here with over 100g of yet un encoded vob files (approx 5g a film) ,,,,

plenty of work to do yet.

nice having a long weekend ,,,,,,but good old 2k rules!!!!!!

freddy ,,,preston

**Mope** · June 24th, 2002, 03:15 PM

I have my drive partitioned so that c is only about 3.5 gigs and all the programs get redirected to d drive. That way you can format and reformat and image and reimage your os until you get bored without having to mess with your progs (except the ones that need to be reinstalled to work) and needing so many discs.

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