Norton Ghost 9 Disk Copy Issues

by jgarniss Aug 19, 2005 5:27AM PDT

Hi everyone,

I am trying to use Norton Ghost to move my current 40gb HD to an 80gb HD. It takes almost 3 hours to do the disk copy.

When I get done, I switch the hard drives (and yes the jumpers too) so that the 80gb HD is now the boot drive and disconnect the 40gb HD. Yet whenever I boot I get a message stating that the windows\system32\hal.dll file is either corrupt or missing.

Has anyone successfully taken a situation like this and had it work so that Windows XP Pro will boot up when you switch the drives?

I am running a dell precision 360, original 40gb hard drive running Windows XP Pro. I want to take the entire disk image on my hard drive and copy it to a new 80gb drive so I can get rid of the old drive before it crashes without having to reinstall some software that I no longer have the original disks for thanks to moving.

Any help on how to do this would be very much appreciated! I have tried following all of the instructions provided by Norton to no avail.

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Odd.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 19, 2005 6:08AM PDT

I never have to move jumpers. Modern 80 conductor IDE cables use CABLE SELECT so I only need to change what connection is used.

Sorry, but I see a procedural error or some of the old school of 40 conductor IDE technology might be hurting the transfer.

Try a repair install of XP on the clone copy?

Bob

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Try Here

by skycatcher Aug 19, 2005 9:35AM PDT

Found this. Hope it helps..

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?hal

Or just do a Google search for hal.dll. I got 46,000 hits to search through.

mike

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Just a WAG

by Steven Haninger Aug 19, 2005 9:42AM PDT

Perhaps there is a physical defect in one of the platters. Ghost may not be validating media integrity. It does not copy file by file. If you are expanding the partition to the size of the new drive, try the process again but leave the partition size alone. See if that works. If it does, I could suspect a problem exists in one of your drives.

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One Other Thought !

by skycatcher Aug 19, 2005 10:09AM PDT

Try this - it has worked for me loads of times.

Plug your new drive in as a Slave. Format it using Format D: /U /S /V:Drive_C
This will Unconditionally wipe it and put the System Files onto it and Name it Drive_C ready for swapping over. Now just use Windows Explorer (set to view ALL files of any description) to copy the lot (except the System Files in the root directory) onto your new drive. Re-jumper the new drive as master and unplug the old one.

I have had trouble imaging from and to drives of differing sizes and also to partitioned drives. Almost as if the image needs an identical drive to copy to ???

Mike

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Where idi that Smiely come from ?

by skycatcher Aug 19, 2005 7:46PM PDT

What happened overnight ???
That should read
Format D: /U /S /V<colon>Drive_D
It was OK when I posted it !!!!
Is Colon D a smiley command ???

Aaahhh... yes it is

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