Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 14:32:01 CST 2006
Dear Group, I'm just checking up to make sure my conceptions about how to do this are in the ballpark. My wife's PC has two 160 GB drives, each one divided into two partitions. We use Norton Ghost to backup the main 160 GB drive to the additional drive. Windows sees the drives as C and D on the main device, and E and F on the additional drive. Drive C has begun to go south. So I Ghosted the device (C & D together) one last time, and I disconnected the main drive from the IDE controller and the power supply. Now I've set the additional drive to be the Master and am at this moment using the Repair option off of the Windows XP installation CD to "refresh" Windows on the "new" drive C. Of course, if I had simply tried to start up the PC with the additional drive as the Master, Windows would complain since the serial number of the drive doesn't match the registry information...or wherever Windows hides the configuration details that tell it that you're trying to use an illicit copy of Windows. I've gotten to the CD key part of the re-install, so things seem to be going all right. My question is: am I correct in assuming that what needs to be done to get Windows to work properly on this Ghosted drive is to use the Repair Installation option? All the data and applications should remain intact, right? -- Regards, Steve Erbach Scientific Marketing Neenah, WI www.swerbach.com Security Page: www.swerbach.com/security