Anyone ever seen a PC problem like this?
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I am fixing a computer for someone and I have the following problem: I can format a hard drive plugged into the slave IDE port from within Windows itself, but when I try to ghost an image onto the drive plugged in exactly the same way, it fails. Also, if I try to install Windows on the drive, it gets to the end of the format then tells me the disk cannot be used. I have had this same thing happen with two different drives, both failing the same way. Could the motherboard be bad? Any other ideas? Thanks! David
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I am fixing a computer for someone and I have the following problem: I can format a hard drive plugged into the slave IDE port from within Windows itself, but when I try to ghost an image onto the drive plugged in exactly the same way, it fails. Also, if I try to install Windows on the drive, it gets to the end of the format then tells me the disk cannot be used. I have had this same thing happen with two different drives, both failing the same way. Could the motherboard be bad? Any other ideas? Thanks! David
Sounds like the CDROM is bad. Replace the CDROM and the IDE cable connecting it and see if it gets better. If not it might be a motherboard but I'd only be convinced of that after doing the above on the HDD itself.
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Sounds like the CDROM is bad. Replace the CDROM and the IDE cable connecting it and see if it gets better. If not it might be a motherboard but I'd only be convinced of that after doing the above on the HDD itself.
Thanks, but I am not using the CDROM, for the imaging, I am ghosting from one hard disk to another, and using the floppy to boot into ghost. The only time I use the CD is for the XP install.
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Thanks, but I am not using the CDROM, for the imaging, I am ghosting from one hard disk to another, and using the floppy to boot into ghost. The only time I use the CD is for the XP install.
Can you move the drive you want to image to a different machine and try the same thing?
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Can you move the drive you want to image to a different machine and try the same thing?
Yeah, that was the next thing I was going to try - installing both drives in another machine and doing the imaging from there. You know, the thing that sucks about this whole thing is that because hard disks are so big now, it takes forever to do anything with the disks.
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Yeah, that was the next thing I was going to try - installing both drives in another machine and doing the imaging from there. You know, the thing that sucks about this whole thing is that because hard disks are so big now, it takes forever to do anything with the disks.
I always start with a 20 gig partition and then use Acronis or some other tool to expand the partition when I'm done.
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I always start with a 20 gig partition and then use Acronis or some other tool to expand the partition when I'm done.
I've done that too with Partition Commander. This particular drive has about 50 gig of stuff on it, so ghosting it would be best - copy it and expand it into the new one. But, like I said before, I haven't been able to get it to work with the two drives I have tried. I guess if it would work in another machine, I should at least replace the IDE cable since I have a couple of spares.