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    G2S - problems restoring Ghost image

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sgatke, Mar 17, 2008.

  1. sgatke

    sgatke Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I have a G2S.
    It came with a 120GB harddisk and now I want to replace it with a 250GB drive.
    Normally in cases like that, I will boot off my PE-CD, run Ghost and create a complete Ghost-image on an external disk. Then, I will swap the drives and copy the image back to the new disk. This process has worked on all the previous notebooks I have had...

    However, on the G2S I can create the image fine. But when I copy the image back, Windows will not start up. In fact, I dont even get the "Starting Vista" bar. The G2S just keeps rebooting in a loop - runs for app. 5 seconds and then reboots again, and again...

    I suspect the Asus Utility Partition to be the culprit. I have tried booting from "Hiren's Boot CD" and changing the VistaOS partition to Active - but I still get the same error.

    If anyone has a tip to get my Ghost image running, any help is appreciated. I still have the original harddisk so if I need to create a new image no problem :)

    Thanx in advance.

    /Simon
     
    sgatke, Mar 17, 2008
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  2. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Are you using ghost 2003? If so, there's some incompatibilities with it and vista, however there are work arounds. I would suggest going to the RAD forums and having a look around, there's a lot of threads there about it. Hope this helps. :)
    http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
     
    talin, Mar 17, 2008
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  3. sgatke

    sgatke Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you Talin29 - I will try reading there.
    If anyone else has any input, please dont hesitate to post here.
     
    sgatke, Mar 17, 2008
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Is the problem maybe related to the recovery partition?
     
    E.B.E., Mar 17, 2008
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  5. sgatke

    sgatke Notebook Enthusiast

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    E.B.E. --> As I wrote, yes I suspect that the recovery partition is somehow involved in my problem. I am just curious, because normally this way of upgrading my harddrive should work flawlessly - and I am desperate for more space on my drive :) I cant be sure about the utility partition, but it is a qualified guess.

    So, if anyone has a really good tip on how to upgrade my existing Vista G2S installation to a larger harddrive, please let me know :)
     
    sgatke, Mar 17, 2008
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