Why direct cloning of windows 2000 ntfs does not work?
I used a byte by byte clone of my root disk to another bigger disk (straight dd from a linux dvd boot). When
I boot, windows comes up but I can't authenticate; it always goes back
to the logon phase. Or it asks me to change password (from a nonadmin account)
which is successful, but then repeats the logon phase.
What is so special in MBR/NTFS that might do this? Is something on the filesystem encoded with hardware?
I do have Ghost, but the version I have stinks because they removed the "clone all disk" option, it just clones volumes. The other thing that I use is the linkfolder facility in Windows, so lots of things are links to other folders on bigger disks.
Yeah, thanks. When I bought Ghost, I was mulling between it and Acronis.
Same motherboard, just a larger disk. I am doing
all the cloning work on another computer, so I take the old disk out, clone it, reinstall it.
Hmm. I bet the errorlog on the new disk will tell me something, provided I can extract it.
Oh, I shutdown clean. Since this is my only bootable disk, I am extra careful.
Oh, acronis has free trials, so I will try that out. It appears to support better disk cloning.