Re: Anyone got ghost2001 working on their Win2000 600x

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 03:38:58 EDT

seemed to make an exact copy of a winME and Win2k dual boot drive but the
result was an unrecogniseable w2k partition..
it seemed to work, but i blasted it and am in the process of finding my drive
copy pro..

Will Lau wrote:

> care to explain "strange"?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Morrow [mailto:penzance_at_gate.net]
> > Sent: Friday, 6 October 2000 5:32 p.m.
> > To: Will Lau
> > Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> > Subject: Re: Anyone got ghost2001 working on their Win2000 600x
> >
> >
> > Ghost has produced some rather strange results for me, lately..
> > esp. on a HDD with WinME and W2k..
> >
> > Will Lau wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone got Ghost 2001 mirroring their Win 2000 HDDs okay?
> > >
> > > I cant get mine to work. Partition Magic works if I copy each partition
> > > one-by-one but not Ghost.
> > >
> > > I've got twin 12GB drives running on my 600x. The idea is to mirror the
> > > primary drive to the secondary (swappable bay drive) for backup.
> > >
> > > Ghost mirrors the disks fine but booting into the backup disk I
> > find I cant
> > > log into Win2000. I get an endless "boot loop" login prompt -> enter
> > > login -> starts clinking away -> login prompt, etc....
> > >
> > > FWIW:
> > >
> > > Partition 1: DOS Partition (Fat16 has Ghost on it)
> > > Partition 2: Windows 2000 (NTFS logical)
> > > Partition 3: Just some data (NTFS logical)
> >
> > --
> > ---
> >
> > Happy trails...
> >
> > ** Bill Morrow ** :-)
> > WEB page http://thinkpads.com
> > e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
> > open forum: http://www.afaonline.com:8080/webboard/$webb.exe/~2/login?
> > sic transit gloria
> >
> >
> > 

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Happy trails...

** Bill Morrow **   :-)
WEB page http://thinkpads.com
e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
open forum:  http://www.afaonline.com:8080/webboard/$webb.exe/~2/login?
sic transit gloria

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