Cloning An Xp Drive

[efilflah]

are there any options to ignore bad sectors in partition magic 8?

or am I going to have to go get norton ghost?

if so, which settings do I go to to bypass the bad sectors?

thanks again.

[juelz]

I want to thank the person who recommended the BootIt NG program. This program saved me from reinstalling Windows. I simply used the 'clear sig' feature and I successfully booted into Windows on my new drive. It was that easy! Thanks again!

[Claude Kaufmann]

I added a disk and removed 2 SCSI Disks

"WPA - ...preventing checking license... Error Code 0x80090006"

Yes, even though this XP version has no WPA.

Found following in www.annoyances.org:

switched drives, formatted the old drive, and got this error. I booted up from a BartPE CD (google for that, don't have url handy) and loaded up regedit.

Once in there I highlighted local machine, and did a load hive. I loaded up c:\windows\system32\config\system and once in there I navigated to the MountedDevices key. Well, there's my P: drive staring back at me. So, I opened up that \DosDevices\P: key and did a Select All, Copy, and then cancelled out of there and opened up the \DosDevices\C: key. Then I did a Select All again, and Paste. Exit regedit, reboot, working. woot.

This worked very well, but after i changed the active Partition and again 0x80090006 occured.

After reboot the 0x80090006 Problem occured. I have a multi boot PC and if you encounter this problem try to look at your boot.ini bevor trying anything else. It worked fine for me, the boot partition was chanched to partition 5. As a maximum of 4 primary partitions are allowed it was clear.

[GoldBar]

I Just cloned a 40gig to a 120gig.

Got "error code 0x80090006"

Here is what I did to fix this problem-

Booted from floppy Ran gdisk.exe from Norton Ghost

used the following command line at dos prompt:

gdisk 1 /mbr

this reset the Master Boot Record

Rebooted computer everything is fine

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[Mindfield369]

The Problem stems from selecting set disk as bootable, either by choice or by default.

The fix is to boot from a windows startup disk that has fdisk on it. Change drives by typing "c:" (no quotation marks) then type a:\fdisk /mbr and hit enter. Take the disk out and reboot.

In the future don't select make disk bootable or active, the image has that info in it already and you create a double entry.

[TheBoss]

I think I have pretty much exausted all posts on this subject and Wolfman's is the most acceptable answer.

However my problem is that I'm trying to fix a sick OS on an embeded camera controller that has no floppy or CD so I can't run BootIt NG.

Cloning is the only way to create an OS for such a system when you don't have an attached CD so it looks like I'm stuck.

Some of you have cloned bootable disks without drama - don't know how you did it but congratulations.

Have tried Disk Image, Partition Magic, DrvClonerXP, registry edits etc. etc. I have tried a fresh install by removing the drive to a laptop - all with legal software and all without success.

Windows costs a fortune.

I have to say after reading so much on XP in forums now I don't know how so many people got sucked in to the Microsoft world when there has been a perfectly good, hassle free alternative since 1987 - the Mac. Just wish they could run on embedded systems so I could avoid all this fish bowling. java script:emoticon('')

[TheBoss]

Hey everyone - problem solved for good - fast, easy, stays in Windows and it's free! It's called XXClone and it solves this problem with having to think about it.

Thanks to Wolfman and everyone else who posted directions.

Check it out at www.xxclone.com

[wolfman]

Hi TheBoss,

concerning your problem with the embedded camera controller,

you must surely have a flash disk or smth similar to store your pictures.

In that case I would suggest you put bootitNG or similar on the flash disk.

I hope this helps a little.

Regards

[tlan]

Thanks for the insight. I just upgraded from a 15gb sys drive to a 60gb and ran into the same error I could not even logon to get my favorites.

I used bootitng and reset the MBR sig and it worked. I think I lost 10 pounds on this one

Thanks and great site

[DaPaul]

From reading all the posts and having tested some of the Programs suggested, I feel that bootitng has some major advantages (200 primary partitions for one..). May be Wolfman could post a step-by-step guide for cloning XP to another disk?

[rsochan]

This error 0x80090006 can also occur when the wrong drive letter has been set on the boot drive. This happened to me when I first tried to ghost an XP C: drive (20GB) to a new larger drive (60GB) using Symantec Norton Ghost 9.0. After I got the correct settings, it worked fine. Here are the steps that I used to make it work:

Assumptions: Norton Ghost 9.0 is already installed, and the new blank drive is connected to the PC.

1) I made sure the new drive was all unallocated space with no partitions (Right-click on My Computer, go to Manage, and then choose Disk Management.)

2) Run Norton Ghost and select the "Copy One Drive to Another" option.

3) Follow the wizard, selecting the C: drive as the source and the unallocated drive as the destination.

4) On the Options screen, check "Resize drive to fill unallocated space", "Set drive active (for booting OS)", "Primary partition", and "Copy MBR". DO NOT select a drive letter -- leave it at <none>. (See attached screen shot)

5) Once the copy is complete, shut down XP. Pull the old drive out and replace with the new drive. Restart Win XP. In my case, the new drive was detected by Windows on the first boot and I was asked if I wanted to restart. Click on yes to reboot one more time (if prompted).