xp doesnt log in after ghost

[jungle]

I installed xp on a spare drive, then ghosted it to the primary partition of the normal drive...now it boots, but stops at the banner screen that normally has the icons for each user.......what is the deal?


tia...

 

[bsobel]

Sounds like the drive letter of the OS has changed. The not logging in once this occurs is a known issue, check the MS kb's. Could that indeed be the case?

Bill

 

[Motero]

Bad clusters on the other drive? I had a situation where a just had a few bad spots in the beginning of the drive and when I ghosted the drive, The whole starup was different and I had to reconfigure it.

 

[jungle]

well scandisk didn't find anything....for bad sectors.....

the boot up drive letter shouldn't have changed....hence xp was installed on drive 0 partition 0 on the primary ide controller....the drive i ghosted it to was installed as drive 0 partition 0 on the 1st ide controller..... in other words they both are drive c.....

the only thing that i can think of as being different is that the drive i orignally installed it on was one drive w/ one partition...the new drive has two partitions, and the 1st partition being the one that was ghosted to.

 

[NogginBoink]

Yep. That's exactly what happens when you use Ghost as a backup solution.

Q249321 should fix you up. Just like bsobel said.

 

[SSVegeta]

ive run into situations where forgetting to turn off firewall/scanner while running sysprep can hose ya! also, to high of compression. this is why i NEVER test it on the original drive! yeah, youd be surprised!

BTW, this is my first post!

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: jungle
I installed xp on a spare drive, then ghosted it to the primary partition of the normal drive...now it boots, but stops at the banner screen that normally has the icons for each user.......what is the deal?

Several of my friends have successfully ghosted XP, but not the way you tried it. What they did was:

1. Use a pair of matched drives (same make, size and model).

2. Set up the first drive (install XP and programs).

3. Format the second drive

4. Ghost the first drive to the second one.

I personally saw each drive boot up and work on all of these machines.

Hope that helps.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Which Version of GHOST did you use?

Win2k uses NTFS 5.0 while WinXP uses NTFS 5.1
While similair, they are not the same.
(WinXP requires GHOST 2k2 or later)

 

[jungle]

I used ghost 7.5....
I looked up that Technet article, I tried the registry edit on the working drive....i dunno if i entered it wrong...apon reboot the machine booted to the username/icon screen w/ the icons greyed out and stayed there........crappy......i booted w/ win98 boot disk and did an fdisk /mbr to the drive i wanted to boot off of and all is well! YEAH! I guess wiping out the GUID took care of it. I am still confused as to why this all happended....i mean xp was installed on a machine w/ one drive as drive c, why can't it be ghosted to another drive as drive c......unless it has something to do w/ having the destination drive having 2 partitions on it.......I have ghosted xp b4 w/o any hang ups......me confuseded...but oh well....it werks now!
thanks!!!!

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: jungle
I used ghost 7.5....
I looked up that Technet article, I tried the registry edit on the working drive....i dunno if i entered it wrong...apon reboot the machine booted to the username/icon screen w/ the icons greyed out and stayed there........crappy......i booted w/ win98 boot disk and did an fdisk /mbr to the drive i wanted to boot off of and all is well! YEAH! I guess wiping out the GUID took care of it. I am still confused as to why this all happended....i mean xp was installed on a machine w/ one drive as drive c, why can't it be ghosted to another drive as drive c......unless it has something to do w/ having the destination drive having 2 partitions on it.......I have ghosted xp b4 w/o any hang ups......me confuseded...but oh well....it werks now!
thanks!!!!

It happens because WinXP maps drive letters to partitions based on the drive's signature.

So the registry said, the drive with signature "12345" is drive C.

You then ghosted to a new hard drive, that had a different signature.

XP saw that drive with signature "12345" was missing, so it reserved drive letter C for that drive when it came back. Your new drive, with signature "67890," was assigned the next available drive letter.

XP was working exactly as it was designed to work.

 

[doan]

Ghosting with win 2k or XP only works if you ghost the whole drive.