HD Cloning

[Peterp]

I have two drives - a 6Gb HD and a 32Gb HD.
I want to clone the 6Gb HD onto the 32Gb HD.

I using Norton Ghost ver 5.5 to do the cloning and when I rebooted the system using the 32Gb HD I got an error message "Hidden Chksum Error"

Any ideas people..

[rangeral]

If your system used a 6g hd then the bios may not support a 32g drive go to your hd's site and use there utility to copy the 6g to the new drive where it should have tools to help you use the 32g and copy it as well then you could do a clone of the new drive once its up and running.

[Peterp]

rangeral

When I boot off the 6Gb HD set as master and the 32Gb drive set as a slave, I can see the 32Gb HD and copy data to it.

Does this not rule out compatability problems with the Bios??

[muchmark]

I've run into this problem using PQ Drive Image when imaging a smaller drive to a larger drive the machine wont boot with the larger drive. The solution was during the imaging process was to resized the drive to be imaged then use PQ Partition Magic to reclaimed the unused space.

[rangeral]

The reason I say this is because if your using a 6g hd your system could be few years old and have trouble recognizing the larger drive since you didn't list your system specs or how old your machine is this is why I mention using the utility from the hd's site in case you run into that problem since you had trouble with it to begin with.

It might be workable but if you do a setup of the drive and try to install win you may run into a problem recognizing the drive with windows and your bios, do a hard disk detection in your bios and see if it makes it thru that.

If your seeing the drive as slave then use the utility to copy the 6g to the 32g then if all goes well you can try booting with it and see what happens from there once everything is working fine you can start using ghost to make an image. Also before you do a copy or image you should delete all temp files and internet cache uninstall any apps that were not working rite and do a scandisk and a defrag all of this will help make a drivecopy and or image go alot smoother towards completion.

[Peterp]

rangeral

Sorry for the confusion. The computer belongs to a friend and I volunteered to install his new HD and copy all his software across.
I though this was going to be easy...

Any way, I think the PC is less than 2 years. Its a shop bought Compac PC with 400MHz Celeron. I can't remember the Bios but it doesn't have an auto detect utility for the HD.

I reckon that the image on the new HD is okay, its just a problem with the boot sectors. I might try re-installing Win98 and this may solve the boot problems.

Cheers
Peter

[PhilipOK]

Look , I had the same trouble . If to be honest I don't know the reason of such a problem . But...First I've tried PowerQuest software - I've faced this junk first time . Then I decided that this error was due to the software I've used . I changed it . Now I had a Norton Ghost . But I didn't help me . At last , my friend told me about Acronis Migrate Easy .He even helped me with parameter and option settings(he is very good in all kind of these PC things). And you know what ? Finally I've got my old 13.6 Gb hard drive cloned to the 40 GB new one . I can't explain to you why only this software helped me . Maybe their online information will help you (www.acronis.com) . This is all ...

[elroy]

A couple of ideas:
did you set the 32gb drive to be active when you ran fdisk? if not it won't boot. I believe you'll have to unhook the 6gb to set the 32gb as active since it won't allow another drive to be set as active if an actve drive is already present.
Go to Maxtor.com and download Maxblast, make the boot disk and boot the machine with the Maxblast boot floppy, go to the advanced options and select "copy entire partition" select the 6gb as the source and the 32gb as the destination.
This free program works great. I've copied MANY drives with it.

[pawprint]

keep 6 gig hd as master, and 32 gig hd as slave....use win 98 startup disk to fdisk 32 gig hd and create your primary partition(s) etc...restart using win 98 startup disk, and format D drive using format D: command{space between format and D}
use your norton ghost boot disk...select copy> partition C{source drive} to partition D{ destination drive} and double check that you have the right instructions prior to clicking on yes. If this sounds confusing, it is at first:(
do a www.google.com search using keywords Norton ghost, and check out radified user's guide to ghost..it is an excellent reference website...keep in mind that ghost is not very"user friendly" intuitive software, and is VERY unforgiving if you choose the wrong destination drive etc., you could wipe out existing partitions, so be sure to double check first.....cheers,~pawprint~