From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 23:21:33 EDT
You do need to boot DOS to run Ghost, no way around that.
I use this solution: A small DOS partition at the beginning of the hard
drive, with DOS utilities like Ghost installed on it. The Windows 2000
partition then fills up the rest of the drive. I use System Commander to
select DOS or Windows 2000 at boot time.
On a large drive, I think the DOS partition has to be at the beginning for
it to boot, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I put it at the beginning on
mine anyway. It doesn't matter on a smaller drive (less than 8Gb if I recall
right).
If you move the Windows 2000 partition so it's the second partition instead
of the first, you need to edit boot.ini and change "partition(1)" to
"partition(2)" each place it occurs, or it won't boot. One good way to do
this is to edit the file before you make the conversion, and duplicate the
line that resembles this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
In the second copy change partition(1) to partition(2), and also change the
name:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional (2)" /fastdetect
This way you can boot Windows 2000 regardless of whether it's on the first
or second partition, by selecting one of these two entries at boot time.
Once you've got everything converted over and booting, you can take out the
original entry on the new disk, and change the default to match.
If you forget to do this, you can edit boot.ini on the new drive by
installing both drives and booting from the original drive. That's the only
real snag you should run into.
After you've got the DOS and Windows 2000 partitions set up, you can use
System Commander or another boot manager to select them. For testing, you
can even boot from floppy and use FDISK to set the active partition.
Hope that helps, holler if any questions.
-Mike
> I just bought Ghost2000, thinking it was WIN2000 compatible (it said
> DOS/95/98/2000 on the site). Having never used this app before I was
> disappointed to find it's a DOS app and I need to boot to DOS to mirror my
> Hard Drive to my backup SlimBay drive.
>
> I run Win2000 exclusively, on a single NTFS partition. Is there anyway I
can
> mirror my drives? I dont have enough bays to boot from floppy. I don't
take
> my external FDD with me - just the slimbay cartridge and the bay already
has
> the backup HDD in it.
>
> Actually I tried to boot from DOS and it said I was missing the NTLoader!
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