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Hi,
I bought BootIT NG to clone a hard drive so I could increase my drive size
from 40 GB to 160 GB. I spent a week now cleaning the new hard drive and
setting it up by copying and pasting the
partitions in BootIt NG and then taking out the
old HD. I've tried dozens of variations on the advice of the tech support. I
have the log-on, can get into my WIN98 partition, but XP gives me registry
failure: Stop 00000051, or can't load hive default_. My XP (SP2, all
up-to-date) setup runs great on the old HD, just running out of space. I had
run chkdsk on the old HD partitons before the copy several times to be sure.
Tested my memory, ran utility checks on both drives and they came out
"certified error free". I've images and restored....(I know all the jumper
options off by heart by now...) Once I tried a repair with the XP disk (i.e.
near reinstall, not repair console)which seemed to work, but that seemed
rather tedious after spending money on software to do it. Has anyone had
better experience with Ghost or any other software.
Thanks
Michael
C: is WIN 98 (2 GB) D is XP (extended) about 17 GB
NTFS, E: is data storage, about 18 or so GB (whatever is left), NTFS. I
copied all 3 partitions, set C active, resized only D (60 GB) and E (90GB)to
use the remaining space. I get the select OS screen and can get into WIN98,
but can't manage getting into XP
Hi,
I bought BootIT NG to clone a hard drive so I could increase my drive size
from 40 GB to 160 GB. I spent a week now cleaning the new hard drive and
setting it up by copying and pasting the
partitions in BootIt NG and then taking out the
old HD. I've tried dozens of variations on the advice of the tech support. I
have the log-on, can get into my WIN98 partition, but XP gives me registry
failure: Stop 00000051, or can't load hive default_. My XP (SP2, all
up-to-date) setup runs great on the old HD, just running out of space. I had
run chkdsk on the old HD partitons before the copy several times to be sure.
Tested my memory, ran utility checks on both drives and they came out
"certified error free". I've images and restored....(I know all the jumper
options off by heart by now...) Once I tried a repair with the XP disk (i.e.
near reinstall, not repair console)which seemed to work, but that seemed
rather tedious after spending money on software to do it. Has anyone had
better experience with Ghost or any other software.
Thanks
Michael
C: is WIN 98 (2 GB) D is XP (extended) about 17 GB
NTFS, E: is data storage, about 18 or so GB (whatever is left), NTFS. I
copied all 3 partitions, set C active, resized only D (60 GB) and E (90GB)to
use the remaining space. I get the select OS screen and can get into WIN98,
but can't manage getting into XP