strange problem when ghost Win2k

[peacefulsun]

Hi, there, I have a 40GB and a 60GB harddrive. I had win98 installed in a 10 GB partition of 40GB one, and win2k installed in a 5GB partition of 60GB one. Then I tried to switch their position by using ghost 2002 Dos version, here is what I did:

Rebooted into Dos from win98
Made image files of the 2 partitions that hold my win98 and win2k, put them into another partition.
Ghosted the win98 image to the 5GB partition on the 60GB drive.
Rebooted twice into both win98 located on two hard drive, both worked.

Rebooted into Dos from win98 again.
Ghosted the win2k image to the 10GB partition on the 40GB drive.
Rebooted into win2k

Now is the problem, I could not log in win2k. I had a login name which do not require a password and an administrator username with password. However I tried it, I could not log in win2k in both cases.

Further more, when I rebooted back to win98, I found a WINNT folder and a Pagefile.sys file located at c:\. I believe those are blong to win2k system and when I first booted into that win98 they were not there. Why and how they come to the win98 partition make me confused.

Any help? Thanks in advance!

 

[obenton]

Copying the win2k partition to another drive changed w2k's drive letter. It doesn't like to have its drive letter changed.

 

[deeznuts]

what should one do then? burn it onto a CD?

 

[peacefulsun]

<< Copying the win2k partition to another drive changed w2k's drive letter. It doesn't like to have its drive letter changed. >>



I made a image file and put it to another partition, I think it's not a copying and I didn't use it on another partition. And after I Ghosted the win2k image file back to the primary partition of the harddrive, I selected that harddrive as the 1th boot device in the BIOS, so the win2k is still booted from C:\ drive. The difference I can think is now the partition size is different, changed from 5GB to 10GB.

I still have no clue. For those of you successfully back up and recover your win2k system, what did you do? Any trick in it? Or should not I try to do it through different physical harddrive?

 

[panglq]

A suggestion:
Change the physical postion the 2 HDD, ie. switch the 2 sockets that the two HDD are plug in, or if the 2 HDD are plugged the same cable, change the master/slave setting of the 2 HDD.

 

[peacefulsun]

<< A suggestion:
Change the physical postion the 2 HDD, ie. switch the 2 sockets that the two HDD are plug in, or if the 2 HDD are plugged the same cable, change the master/slave setting of the 2 HDD. >>



I might try that after I finish some work this week. Thanks!

 

[obenton]

If the w2k drive letter remains the same, the next issue is a different disk GUID from the original one in the w2k registry. To fix this, run fdisk/mbr (works only on the C: drive).

 

[peacefulsun]

<< If the w2k drive letter remains the same, the next issue is a different disk GUID from the original one in the w2k registry. To fix this, run fdisk/mbr (works only on the C: drive). >>



So you mean I should boot in Dos and run fdisk from there?

 

[panglq]

The fdisk /mbr won't repartition your HDD, but only reset bootstrip code in the MBR(Main Boot Record). I doubt the procedure will change the GUID(where is it? I think it should be in the boot record of individual drive) of the drive C:. I only used it when the MBR was infected with a virus.