Need some sreious help!!!!

[timalpr]

My old hard drive has been failing on me, and i hust purchased a new one. Is there a way i can copy everything over to the new one so it works? I know i should probably just start over, but there is a lot of stuff i need off the old one including the OS.

Thanx for your help in advance,

Timalpr

[k2]

symantec ghost, trial version should do the job for you.

[dang]

ghost kicks ass. But, if he does a drive image instead of partition, he might get "non-matching" errors when trying to restore, right? You can restore it using a flag to ignore i think..

But definitely Ghost.

[timalpr]

I used ghost 9.0 and selected "upgrading to new drive" it copied everything but when i tried to boot up, it would not boot. Then i used the w.d. data lifegaurd tools which is supposed to do the same thing and when i tried to boot, it said it could not boot the OS.

Any suggestions?

[Ioman]

I used ghost 9.0 and selected "upgrading to new drive" it copied everything but when i tried to boot up, it would not boot. Then i used the w.d. data lifegaurd tools which is supposed to do the same thing and when i tried to boot, it said it could not boot the OS.

Any suggestions?


haha ya noob!! :(

Just teasing

[Ioman]

Just get a new hard drive, format it and add the old one as a second drive and copy the data over. Easiest way plus you get a fresh install.

[k2]

does that ghost option grab the mbr? i usually do a drive copy.

[timalpr]

Well, i tried ghost, i tried data lifegaurd tools, and nothing has worked. When i use my new hd as a slave i can see all the files on there, and it is an exact copy, but when i boot it up as the master i still get "cannot load operating system. I even booted from cd rom to try and fix with a windows disk. After it erased bad files and copied new ones i re-booted from master drive and same thing happens. This is really frustrating.