2 vista disks doesn't work? John <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> 10/19/2008 3:14:09 PM I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old vista. Why does this happen? Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to do. I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and organizational things I'd done on the new vista. Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. John

Re: 2 vista disks doesn't work? "philo" <philo[ at ]privacy.net> 10/19/2008 6:13:36 PM "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message news:OHWBX1fMJHA.5228[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. > > After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. > About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old > vista. Why does this happen? > > Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got > SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to do. > > I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and organizational > things I'd done on the new vista. > > Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new > drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. > > John It seems more like you lost sight of which disk was which

Re: 2 vista disks doesn't work? John <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> 10/19/2008 9:28:11 PM philo wrote: [Quoted Text] > "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message > news:OHWBX1fMJHA.5228[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. >> >> After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. >> About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old >> vista. Why does this happen? >> >> Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got >> SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to do. >> >> I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and organizational >> things I'd done on the new vista. >> >> Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new >> drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. >> >> John > > > It seems more like you lost sight of which disk was which > > I just booted up and ran a couple things. Now I'm thinking I should have switched the cables on the disks. Probably all the pointers are to the particular disks rather than to disk C: and D:. John

Re: 2 vista disks doesn't work? "philo" <philo[ at ]privacy.net> 10/19/2008 10:31:21 PM "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message news:%23FzHYGjMJHA.4440[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > philo wrote: >> "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message >> news:OHWBX1fMJHA.5228[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. >>> >>> After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. >>> About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old >>> vista. Why does this happen? >>> >>> Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got >>> SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to do. >>> >>> I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and organizational >>> things I'd done on the new vista. >>> >>> Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new >>> drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. >>> >>> John >> >> >> It seems more like you lost sight of which disk was which >> >> > I just booted up and ran a couple things. Now I'm thinking I should have > switched the cables on the disks. Probably all the pointers are to the > particular disks rather than to disk C: and D:. > John I don't know what happened but.... If you make a clone, the first time you boot from it, it needs to be put in place of the original drive so that both drives, if used singly will be assigned the drive letter C: (or whatever it was originally) Once you have booted from a cloned drive, if you use it as a second drive, it will get assigned a different letter, but should revert to C: again if put back in the original position...singly. If you can get one of your drives all sorted out and working 100% I'd reclone it. Then remove the drive and replace it with the clone... and confirm the clone is good. Once the cloned drive is confirmed good... remove it at set it aside in case of an emergency. Then use a third drive as a backup for just your data. (Or whatever scheme best suits you)

Re: 2 vista disks doesn't work? John <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> 10/20/2008 3:23:16 AM philo wrote: [Quoted Text] > "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message > news:%23FzHYGjMJHA.4440[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> philo wrote: >>> "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message >>> news:OHWBX1fMJHA.5228[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>> I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. >>>> >>>> After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. >>>> About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old >>>> vista. Why does this happen? >>>> >>>> Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got >>>> SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to do. >>>> >>>> I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and organizational >>>> things I'd done on the new vista. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new >>>> drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. >>>> >>>> John >>> >>> It seems more like you lost sight of which disk was which >>> >>> >> I just booted up and ran a couple things. Now I'm thinking I should have >> switched the cables on the disks. Probably all the pointers are to the >> particular disks rather than to disk C: and D:. >> John > > I don't know what happened but.... > > If you make a clone, the first time you boot from it, > it needs to be put in place of the original drive > so that both drives, if used singly will be assigned the drive letter C: > > (or whatever it was originally) > > Once you have booted from a cloned drive, > if you use it as a second drive, it will get assigned a different letter, > but should revert to C: again if put back in the original position...singly. > > If you can get one of your drives all sorted out and working 100% > I'd reclone it. > > Then remove the drive and replace it with the clone... > and confirm the clone is good. > > Once the cloned drive is confirmed good... > remove it at set it aside in case of an emergency. > > Then use a third drive as a backup for just your data. > > (Or whatever scheme best suits you) > > Makes sense. I just want to be sure I can boot and be operational right away. John

Re: 2 vista disks doesn't work? "philo" <philo[ at ]privacy.net> 10/20/2008 8:57:03 PM "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message news:O3U4yMmMJHA.3744[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > philo wrote: >> "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message >> news:%23FzHYGjMJHA.4440[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> philo wrote: >>>> "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message >>>> news:OHWBX1fMJHA.5228[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>>> I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. >>>>> >>>>> After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. >>>>> About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old >>>>> vista. Why does this happen? >>>>> >>>>> Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got >>>>> SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to >>>>> do. >>>>> >>>>> I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and >>>>> organizational >>>>> things I'd done on the new vista. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new >>>>> drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. >>>>> >>>>> John >>>> >>>> It seems more like you lost sight of which disk was which >>>> >>>> >>> I just booted up and ran a couple things. Now I'm thinking I should have >>> switched the cables on the disks. Probably all the pointers are to the >>> particular disks rather than to disk C: and D:. >>> John >> >> I don't know what happened but.... >> >> If you make a clone, the first time you boot from it, >> it needs to be put in place of the original drive >> so that both drives, if used singly will be assigned the drive letter C: >> >> (or whatever it was originally) >> >> Once you have booted from a cloned drive, >> if you use it as a second drive, it will get assigned a different letter, >> but should revert to C: again if put back in the original >> position...singly. >> >> If you can get one of your drives all sorted out and working 100% >> I'd reclone it. >> >> Then remove the drive and replace it with the clone... >> and confirm the clone is good. >> >> Once the cloned drive is confirmed good... >> remove it at set it aside in case of an emergency. >> >> Then use a third drive as a backup for just your data. >> >> (Or whatever scheme best suits you) > Makes sense. I just want to be sure I can boot and be operational right > away. > > John Well as soon as you make the clone. turn the machine off and put it in the place of your original drive... that way the proper drive letter will be assigned and you can be sure that it's ok

Re: 2 vista disks doesn't work? "John Barnes" <JBarnes[ at ]email.com> 10/25/2008 6:47:38 PM License compliance doesn't allow two simultaneous copies, unplug the clone and plug into the original mobo slot when you need to use it. Having the second copy on another drive could quickly give you activation problems as the serial number of the hard drive is a major component in the algorithm used for activation. If you have the clone unplugged until you need it and using the original mobo slot when you do, will prevent any mixup in pointers in the registry. "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message news:O3U4yMmMJHA.3744[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > philo wrote: >> "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message >> news:%23FzHYGjMJHA.4440[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> philo wrote: >>>> "John" <john6528[ at ]comcast.com> wrote in message >>>> news:OHWBX1fMJHA.5228[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>>> I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup. >>>>> >>>>> After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. >>>>> About 50% of the files on the new vista got copied over by the old >>>>> vista. Why does this happen? >>>>> >>>>> Strangest thing was my email (thunderbird). The email files got >>>>> SWITCHED! The old went to the new and vice versa. That isn't easy to >>>>> do. >>>>> >>>>> I also lost my nice new desktop and several new files and >>>>> organizational >>>>> things I'd done on the new vista. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a way to prevent this? I guess I could just unplug the new >>>>> drive when booting from the old but it defeats the purpose of backup. >>>>> >>>>> John >>>> >>>> It seems more like you lost sight of which disk was which >>>> >>>> >>> I just booted up and ran a couple things. Now I'm thinking I should have >>> switched the cables on the disks. Probably all the pointers are to the >>> particular disks rather than to disk C: and D:. >>> John >> >> I don't know what happened but.... >> >> If you make a clone, the first time you boot from it, >> it needs to be put in place of the original drive >> so that both drives, if used singly will be assigned the drive letter C: >> >> (or whatever it was originally) >> >> Once you have booted from a cloned drive, >> if you use it as a second drive, it will get assigned a different letter, >> but should revert to C: again if put back in the original >> position...singly. >> >> If you can get one of your drives all sorted out and working 100% >> I'd reclone it. >> >> Then remove the drive and replace it with the clone... >> and confirm the clone is good. >> >> Once the cloned drive is confirmed good... >> remove it at set it aside in case of an emergency. >> >> Then use a third drive as a backup for just your data. >> >> (Or whatever scheme best suits you) > Makes sense. I just want to be sure I can boot and be operational right > away. > > John