Here's the scenario:
Win2K on Drive C:
Clean Disk on Drive D: (unformatted/no partition).
Use Norton Ghost on FDD w/Win98 boot to Ghost Drive C: to D:
Before you restart the machine you gotta pull drive D: (put it away in the drawer) because you're not supposed to have two "bootable" drives connected at the same time (I learned this the hard way... twice...)
Is it the same situation for WinNT4.0 ?
Ghosting an NT40 HDD
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Ray Minich
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Ole Dantoft
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Ray,
there's absolutely no problem in having two bootable drives in your PC, in fact I have just that in the PC I'm sitting at right now ! The problem you have encountered was probably, that both the drives where configured as "Master" and in that situation the PC just locks up and won't boot !
In a two-drive configuration one drive must be setup as "Master" and the other as "Slave" - it's simply moving a small jumper on the drive, usually marked "MS" and "SL". It can also be done by using a special cable and setting both drives to "CS" or "Cable Select", the end result is the same.
In any case only the operating system on the Master drive will boot up, but you can edit a file called BOOT.INI on the C-drive to enable a startup menu, where you can choose to start either the one on your first drive or the other !
Re. your question about Ghost'ing an NT 4.0 drive the answer is "YES" - it works exactly the same on all NT-based operating systems NT4.0/Windows2000/Windows2003/WindowsXP.
Hope that helps more than it confuses
!
Ole
there's absolutely no problem in having two bootable drives in your PC, in fact I have just that in the PC I'm sitting at right now ! The problem you have encountered was probably, that both the drives where configured as "Master" and in that situation the PC just locks up and won't boot !
In a two-drive configuration one drive must be setup as "Master" and the other as "Slave" - it's simply moving a small jumper on the drive, usually marked "MS" and "SL". It can also be done by using a special cable and setting both drives to "CS" or "Cable Select", the end result is the same.
In any case only the operating system on the Master drive will boot up, but you can edit a file called BOOT.INI on the C-drive to enable a startup menu, where you can choose to start either the one on your first drive or the other !
Re. your question about Ghost'ing an NT 4.0 drive the answer is "YES" - it works exactly the same on all NT-based operating systems NT4.0/Windows2000/Windows2003/WindowsXP.
Hope that helps more than it confuses
!Ole