I’m on 2k and Ghost is quite sufficient for my needs. If you can get the old drive to work “one last time” your chances are pretty good you can recover everything yourself, no muss no fuss. It’ll put everything where it needs to be and the only fix you’ll need to do is wipe the registry entries for drive letters before you Ghost it, so it’ll read as C: when you boot the new drive.
Really, if the new one will work for any time at all, your chances with Ghost are excellent. I’ve recovered drives that were kachunking that way before. Figure roughly 1 minute per GB. It’s also tolerant of different partitioning schemes or non-identical drives, unlike Maxblast or similar.
I went from a dying 80 GB partitioned roughly 20/60 (not counting the overhead of course) to a 160 GB partitioned 60/100. Effortless! Ganked the registry entries for drive letter, Ghosted my boot partition which took 20-25 min, then manually copied the data from D: over selectively since I didn’t feel like keeping it all. So very simple!
Thanks. What version of Ghost are you using.
It is at the guy I use and hopefully I get it back late this afternoon. He peformed a miracle for me before. It was booting in black screen safe mode so hopefully he can get the data. I should have a external backup from this weekend. I made sure to start it Friday.
Landlord has been shutting AC almost off on nights and weekends so it gets war 85+ but also humid. The humidity is what worries me.
They used to run it 24x7 pre-Obama.
Just plug in a new drive and use Ghost boot ROM?