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Curses! Attempting disk clone with dynamic partitions.

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nylint

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So far, no utility I've used is capable of this. I've tried DriveImage, Acronis TrueImage, and Ghost 2003. Ghost seems to clone the partition ok but then the newly cloned drive won't boot. Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong, or suggest a better disk clone utility?
 
I'll skip the part about why youd possibly want to use Dynamic Disks and cut to the chase


http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...sf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

Situation:
This document addresses the use of Ghost with Windows 2000 dynamic disks.

Solution:
Norton Ghost 2002 and later, and Symantec Ghost 6.5 and later can clone basic disks, and dynamic disks that have simple volumes or mirrored volumes.

* Earlier Ghost versions are not compatible with dynamic disks.
* Ghost does not support dynamic disks having spanned, striped, or RAID-5 volumes.
* Ghost does not support the use of a Ghost Virtual Boot Partition on a computer that has a dynamic disk, regardless of whether the dynamic disk is the boot disk. To use the Ghost Console to manage a client computer that has a dynamic disk, use a Ghost Boot Partition on the client computer. Alternatively, start the Ghost client computer from a bootable floppy disk and use Ghost Multicast rather than Ghost Console.
* If using Norton Ghost 2003 to clone a dynamic disk, first apply the available fixes to the program by running LiveUpdate. See the document Updates to Norton Ghost 2003.
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any of those apply?
 
Yes sir.
I didn't run LiveUpdate on Ghost 2003. I'll try that, but it's probably gonna work now -_-
 
Ach, nein. Still no boot, even re-running LU several times on Ghost 2003 doesn't work.
 
Care to explain exactly what you are doing? I've cloned dynamic drives with Ghost with no problems many times.
 
Absolutely.

I've got a 20GB and a 40GB on the onboard 686B controller as masters. the 20GB is a dynamic disc. (originally I wanted to software JBOD all these drives for some reason, so I made all the partitions on them dynamic - not too wise, I know) I start up Ghost, select 'Copy One Drive To Another', choose the 20GB as source and the 40 as destination. I then choose to expand the partition to fill the unallocated space, choose the destination type as 'Primary Partition' and tick the 'Copy MBR' checkbox. The copy then commences and appears to work correctly, but I can't boot off the 40GB even though it displays the partition type as Active in the disk management MMC snap-in.
 
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