Norton Ghost 2003 - no paging file

[PeLiGrOsO]

Hello all..
i am having a problem ghosting a computer. the hard drive in the pc sometimes you can hear it grinding and it blue screen at least once a day. so i am trying to ghost before the drive dies on me.
the old drive and the new drive, they are both MAXTORS 20Gigs.
i did the ghosting, everything went fine, shut down the pc, put the new drive as
primary master, booted pc all the way to the login screen. after you put username and password and OK it, i get an error that says there is no paging file, and gives you step on changing the paging file ( right click my computer, properties, blah blah blah ).
i tried booting up pc in safe mode and still does it.
re ghosted drive just incase the first time didnt do it right.
rebooted pc and gives me the same crap over and over, but if i put original drive, it will bot to desktop with out a problem.
i replaced the ram from 128mb pc100 to 256mb pc100 and bios recognizes it, boot pc and get the same error message.

any ideas?
thanks in advanced.

Peligroso

[natcom]

before you ghost do a chkdsk /r /f from a cmd windows this only for win NT base systems

[Gabriel]

Did you Image the entire drive or just the boot/system partition?
It well may be that your Pagefile resides on a different Partition (or another Hard drive).


Good Luck,
Gabriel

[confus-ed]

So now that you are 'stuck' with this 'nearly right' ghost image, I'd suggest just running an 'inplace re-install' on the 'new install' is probably the quickest least thought provoking step to fix you up ..

[NooNoo]

or try this.

[PeLiGrOsO]

NOONOO..
thanks that sysprep took care of the problem..

thanks
Peligroso

[confus-ed]

At the risk of requoting almost all of Noo's answer & the symantec knowledge base !

..This problem may occur after booting into a Windows 2000 system with both the source and cloned drives still installed. The operating system does not properly handle the situation of having two primary hard drives attached. Symantec recommends that the cloned hard drive be removed before rebooting the computer ..

Err thats not the operating system at fault (you liars !) - its ghost !

Computer cannot start properly after doing a disk-to-disk clone

..You copied one disk to another disk on the same computer by using Ghost to perform a disk-to-disk clone. When you start the computer, you see any of the following problems:

Messages indicating problems with the hardware or software configuration
Messages indicating that an application cannot find a file
Windows is running in MS DOS Compatibility Mode
Windows will start in Safe Mode but not in Normal Mode
The computer cannot access one or more drives after the C drive, such as a CD-ROM drive or removable drive..

..This problem happens when you perform a disk-to-disk clone and leave both drives in the computer after Ghost finishes cloning. The problem happens because Windows sometimes reassigns the drive letters, and because both drives have a partition that is marked as Active in the partition table.

Course it does you idiots ! - ghost just changed everything ! Ergo design your product right (it just changed everything so it should fix that) & describe it to the world correctly - Pah ! (at symantec)

So my actual reason for posting is to point out that Ghost may be very good for some situations, but quite often backup & restore to a new installation is much, much, much, (did I say MUCH !?! ), MUCH better !

Here it is 'much better' (infact it almost always is better) as then you get a nice shinny install to restore your data to & not take a big messy registry with you .. I dunno why everyone loves ghost so much - its very rare really that you want a 'clone' - you mostly want a 'copy' which is different !

[PeLiGrOsO]

CONFUS-ED as you are right as well... damn SYMANTEC..

[confus-ed]

CONFUS-ED as you are right as well... damn SYMANTEC..

..of course I'm right ! {except when I'm wrong }

Its interesting to note however that when you get a new drive 'retail' now the disk cloning utility bundled with it, is no longer Ghost (it always was once upon a time), but now some other utility, Maxtor send out 'maxblast' for instance & that don't do this

Ghost has got develeloped into 'I dunno what' - but for 'straighforward, single cloning operations' its got way 'too hard' to use 'simply' - for home users I can't see its that much use, sure for network admins etc it may very well be a useful tool, if you can be bothered to figure out all them stupid switches & caveats, but its no longer on my 'recommended/indispensable' list, I can almost always think of 'something else' to do what I want 'better' ..

So you are right too !