re: WinXP & Drive Image 2002
Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 6:48 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jopio
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
When testing Drive Image on a new installed PC with XP SP-1, I ran into the exact
same problem. Created the Image without any problem, first to a partition on the
same fysical disk, then to a set of two CD's. Restoring itself was no problem either,
but when rebooting WinXP, the screen froze, just before logging in. After some retries
I decided to use my Partition Magic v8.0 CD to boot my pc and see if I could discover
anything strange. And.... Yes I did. My harddisk of 40 Gb is devided in 4 partitions
of 10 Gb each, C, D, E and F. On C I normally install and run WinXP, D I use for
data only, E is for Apps only and F is for pagefile (so it is not fragmented) and
for writing images that I don't write to CD-RW.
OK, when using Partition Magic (booted from the CD-Rom), I noticed that my C partition
was visible and active, just as it should be. But the partitions D, E and F were
all marked as HIDDEN partitions. Very strange. I verified later, when again (testing)
restoring the image to the C partition, that the option 'hide other partitions after
restore' (or something similar to this) was unchecked. It IS an option of Drive Image,
but it doesn't seem to work properly, because in all my tests sofar all other partitions
were hidden during restoring the image. Unhiding using Partition Magic helps every
time and then Voila, XP runs like ever before. Surprise surprise !! Nothing found
at symatec's site, nothing at all.
Perhaps this is a bit long story, but I hope you all understand it and more than
that I hope that it will help you solve your problem. To be honest, I don't know
how you can solve this problem without a tool like Partition Magic. Just a small
coincedence that both programs are from the same company...
Kind regards,
Jopio
On Monday, August 11, 2003 at 1:30 am, David Ree wrote:
>I've just spent 3 days trying to get Drive Image to put a clean, working version
>of WIn XP onto a new Hard Disk I bought. I made an image and burned it to 5 CDs,
>then put it onto the new HD - didn't work. My system completely failed to recognize
>the new disk's WinXP. I then used Drive Image 2002's Copy Partition facility to
copy
>my OS partition onto the new drive. That partly worked - the new HD's WinXP will
>boot up as far as the "Windows" screen, just before you are asked to log into your
>WInXP account. Then it freezes. I am most definitely annoyed. I have SP1 installed.
>I don't know whether this has anything to do with my DriveImage 2002 problem, though.
>
>Of course, if anyone has a suggestion to solve this for me that'd be great.
>
>
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