You lost me a bit, you say one of the mirrored pair is reformatted by
accident, so it's useless. But then you say you repaired the other HD, and
it runs fine. Then say you need to recover a Ghost image? I thought the
other drive w/ bad sectors was repaired and good to go?

Anyway, if the Ghost'ed image is not booting, I suggest an XP repair
install.

Jim


"Neil Bradley" <nb_no_spam@synthcom.com> wrote in message
news:aiehf.3476$Qs2.3088@trnddc03...
> Sorry to cross post, but I believe this applies to the groups in the
> Newsgroups: line.
>
> I have a Windows XP system (this is a legit copy of XP SP 2 FWIW) that
> ran a RAID 1 array with a hard drive that went partially bad. The disk
> has developed bad sectors. The mirror drive, in all of my shifting
> around, have accidentally reformatted due to a boot ordering change that
> I didn't notice. ;-(
>
> Anyway, I have done a chkdsk /f /r on the "bad" drive and the bad
> sectors have now been marked by the operating system. This disk still
> boots and runs just fine with the bad spots.
>
> I have, about 5 times now, attempted to Ghost, with Norton Ghost v10,
> the entire Windows XP system back to the other drive. Each Ghost attempt
> yields a successful disk image copy, but all drives I've tried copying
> the image to yield the same results: Windows XP comes up and does a
> "soft hang" at the "Microsoft Windows XP" blue screen with the small
> logo - right before I normally see the "Welcome text".
>
> At this point, the network is pinging, the mouse is working, and I even
> hear the sound device initialize, so it's pretty far in to the boot
> process. None of the other boot modes, like any of the safe modes, work.
>
> During this hang, if I hit alt-tab, I get "Windows logon" and "Logon" as
> two of the tasks to switch to, but selecting either doesn't bring up
> anything. It's almost as if it's stuck right before giving me the logon
> screen.
>
> I have Ghosted to 3 different drives (even the drive that I overwrote
> accidentally) and to no avail - all Ghosting yields the same results. I
> can't do a sector copy because the source drive has bad sectors in it.
> However, the source drive with the bad sectors will still boot up and
> run just fine now that the bad sectors are avoided.
>
> I have stripped the hardware down to just the video card and onboard IDE
> controller, and the drive in question, but the results are the same. The
> bad drive will still boot and run. Any ghosted drive made from the bad
> drive and put in place of the bad drive will boot up and get to this
> part of XP's boot process and just live hang.
>
> I'm desperate to get this working, as I'll be avoiding reinstalling
> dozens of applications that have accumulated for a couple of years.
Thanks,
>
> -->Neil