Dumb Windows 2000 Questions....

[LvR]

Using 5.1d (latest) and yes it does support resizable NTFS partitions.

The silly thing is the fact that I can and have ghosted a NTFS partition - no problem.

Thing is - you get told afterwards that it will not be bootable. As I said before, I thought this strange, tested it and yes it wont boot.

So - removed partition,installed W2K from cd on blank drive, made sure drive is bootable, and then ghosted the image over that W2K installation.

Now it boots and I have my system restored all fine and dandy.

Anybody else been able to ghost a NTFS W2K partition and have it bootable afterwards by using Ghost alone?


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Lawrence

[Rags]

Yes! I have!

Here's how I did it:

Put in my new HDD, disconnected all my other drives, set the bios for the new drive properly, and set the bios to boot from my CDROM. I placed the win2k CDROM in the CDROM, rebooted, I went ahead and went through the entire process of creating the partition on my entire drive with NTFS, and allowed windows to install. I then turned the machine off, Connected the the drives back to their respective orders, and set the bios accordingly. I used Ghost to do the rest. It booted. It's working now, no problems.

Rags

[EchoWars]

SOOooo...install, then copy over the install. Seems like a pain in the ass, but still wish I'd tried it.

Hell, I need some practice installing W2K anyway I like W2k (except for the partition weirdness) enough that I have a strong feeling that Win98 on my primary machine is going bye-bye...

[Rags]

The only reason I did it that way, is to ensure the boot partition was properly made for the drive. I see there are other ways of doing it, check arsetechnica, they have a great ntfs guide there. I wish it was there before I decided to go ntfs.

Rags

[reondee]

Hey EW!

Why don't you fdisk and format your drive with fat32; then ghost your info; and at last convert the drive with the "convert" command in the W2k command-line?
I have already done it with PQ DriveImage. It was quite easy.

[reondee]