I have a need to create a copy of an existing system drive, which is permanently installed in a machine, to another drive which is in a mobile rack.
After Ghosting the image and restoring the permanent drive image on the drive in the mobile rack using Ghost 12, I rebooted the machine and selected, using F8 (the motherboot alternate boot selection key), the mobile rack drive.
But instead of booting up the mobile rack drive, it booted up the permanent drive. I presume this is because of some kind of conflict between disk signatures. Can this be circumvented?
The interesting thing is Ghost 11.5.1, which I have been using for many years, "correctly" boots up the mobile rack drive.
I am just testing Ghost 12 to see if I need to catch up with the world, but not if it can't do what I need. I did not do anything special to the copy of 11.5.1, so what could cause this difference?
As an aside, a restored Macrium Relect disk image will boot up the mobile rack system drive, but it will assign the boot partition a drive letter like k: (leaving the boot partition on the permanent drive as c:), and then access the d: partition on the permanent drive instead of the mobile rack drive. In this case I could, however, go into the Registry of the booted mobile rack drive and clear out MountedDevices key and reboot with everything being ok. But I would have to edit the Registry each time I restore the image. Strangely, clearing out the key on the permanent drive, making an image of the drive, and restoring the image on the mobile rack drive did not work as I expected. As a second aside, an NVMe drive image could be restored to a drive in the mobile rack, and the latter would boot successfully.