To start, Happy Halloween, I am new and am hoping some one can help me out with my dilema. This may be a bit off topic for this subject but hopefully someone has an answer for me.
I have been working on setting up a structure so that I can back up my hard drive to 2nd hard drive, and in case of primary hard drive failure I can restore to the 2nd hard drive and be on my way. So, I found the structure I want to use but I still dont know enough for it to work properly. Hopefully somebody can help.
Let me describe what I have and did. My c:\ drive is 40gb, and under the 'computer management' utility it shows two partitions. A small FAT partition (31 mb) and the larger NTFS partition (39 gb). The 2nd drive is WD 120gb and I split it into 2 NTFS partitions. The partitions are the d: drive, at 80gb, and the e:\ drive at 40gb.
I used norton ghost 9.0 to backup and save an image of my c: drive (but just the large NTFS partition, and NOT the FAT) to the e: drive. Next I want to make sure my emergency plan would work. Once the image is all done, I disconnected my c: drive, and made the larger 2nd drive the primary drive, making sure all jumpers are set properly.
I installed a version of XP on the d: drive(now the new c:\ drive) so that I can boot the machine up if I disconnect the original c:. That all works fine so far.
In the event of a hard drive failure on my original c:\ drive, I wanted to be able to disconnect the drive, and make the secondary the primary, and boot up to make sure everything is working fine. If I got past this point, I wanted to restore the c:\ image on the old e: (new d:\) to the old d:\ (new c:\ with XP). I assumed the restore function would overwrite everything on the new c: (which had a bootable version of XP) but I didnt think that would matter because I could boot up when the image is restored.
Well I tested this and did the drive restore using the norton ghost recovery cd, and when I tried to boot, it gave me an error. The file 'hal.dll' in system32 directory is missing or corrupted. Not the case, as I copied a clean version of this file and it still does not work.
What did I do wrong? Does anyone know how to make this idea work? Thanks
Mike
I have been working on setting up a structure so that I can back up my hard drive to 2nd hard drive, and in case of primary hard drive failure I can restore to the 2nd hard drive and be on my way. So, I found the structure I want to use but I still dont know enough for it to work properly. Hopefully somebody can help.
Let me describe what I have and did. My c:\ drive is 40gb, and under the 'computer management' utility it shows two partitions. A small FAT partition (31 mb) and the larger NTFS partition (39 gb). The 2nd drive is WD 120gb and I split it into 2 NTFS partitions. The partitions are the d: drive, at 80gb, and the e:\ drive at 40gb.
I used norton ghost 9.0 to backup and save an image of my c: drive (but just the large NTFS partition, and NOT the FAT) to the e: drive. Next I want to make sure my emergency plan would work. Once the image is all done, I disconnected my c: drive, and made the larger 2nd drive the primary drive, making sure all jumpers are set properly.
I installed a version of XP on the d: drive(now the new c:\ drive) so that I can boot the machine up if I disconnect the original c:. That all works fine so far.
In the event of a hard drive failure on my original c:\ drive, I wanted to be able to disconnect the drive, and make the secondary the primary, and boot up to make sure everything is working fine. If I got past this point, I wanted to restore the c:\ image on the old e: (new d:\) to the old d:\ (new c:\ with XP). I assumed the restore function would overwrite everything on the new c: (which had a bootable version of XP) but I didnt think that would matter because I could boot up when the image is restored.
Well I tested this and did the drive restore using the norton ghost recovery cd, and when I tried to boot, it gave me an error. The file 'hal.dll' in system32 directory is missing or corrupted. Not the case, as I copied a clean version of this file and it still does not work.
What did I do wrong? Does anyone know how to make this idea work? Thanks
Mike
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