heres what i did...why didnt it work???

[markman]

I copied my 30gig onto the 60gig with norton ghost, then formatted the 30gig. When both drives were in and I booted up, I got an error "invalid pagefile in non-paged area" but ignored it cause it only happened when both drives were in there. I installed linux on the 30gig (500mb swap and the rest native) and it said it was successful. I installed LILO on the the 30gig, which it said was the hdd1.

I then booted it up with both drives, and windows loaded as it should since ntldr was in the mbr. It said KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED and said something about datestamp on a bsod then shut down, right after I entered the password for my network privilages.

When it restarted, many files were gone or corrupt, since it didnt shut down normally.


Now, I can still format and everything, but how do I avoid this next time???

[markman]

found this.
could this be why?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q297523

[markman]

but wouldnt ezbios be removed everytime I format (which I have done with that drive since I installed ezbios when I got it)? or not?

[zmerlinz]

Norton ghost is the pickiest program ever, i think that you problem is that the drive that you are restoreing the image on is different in make and size and it doens't like things like that, so i think this is why, use Nero or Easy Coaster Creater and backup your drive onto RW or something, would be a better option

[markman]

Heres what I plan to do:

Format 30gig. use as WD proggy to remove ez bios. PMagic to copy non-operational 60gig to 30 gig. format 60 gig. Install windows on 60gig. Copy necessary files from 30 to 60gig. Once, 60gig is up and running, format 30gig. install linux on 30gig

• should I make the linux partition on the 60gig just fpr safety?
• can windows read the ext2/ex3 format?
• where should i put the LILO? MBR? or the linux native partition? or use GRUB? If I put it on the MBR, why wont it say: "would you like to use win2k or linux (you have 10 seconds)"?

[markman]

I ran scandisk and i came up with a couple gigs of bad sectors, so I just formatted, which got rid of the sectors. The only problem was that I couldnt get into windows to back up my stuff, so I had to manually copy each and every file I wanted to back up. It took HOURS!!!!!


Anyways, Im going to make an image of the current drive tomorrow, install linux, and hope everything works

[scoutt]

Originally posted by zmerlinz
Norton ghost is the pickiest program ever, i think that you problem is that the drive that you are restoreing the image on is different in make and size and it doens't like things like that, so i think this is why, use Nero or Easy Coaster Creater and backup your drive onto RW or something, would be a better option

that is not true. we ghost different size disks with the same OS and images and we don't have any problems.

Iriginally posted by markman
but wouldnt ezbios be removed everytime I format (which I have done with that drive since I installed ezbios when I got it)? or not?

ez-bios is on the boor record. you format it doesn't touche the boot record. you have to take it off befor eyou fdisk it too. once ez-bios is off you have to fdsik it again and reformat. ez-bios is for older bios's that can't see large hard drives. not needed in todays applications.

If I am not mistaken LILO has to be on hdd0 not hdd1 as the hdd0 is the master in most cases.