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Re: Help with trying to clone my hdd with Norton Ghost
« on: November 24, 2007, 12:07:12 AM »
Also, you might want to ensure that Ghost takes care of writing the correct drive geometry back into the NTFS boot sector.

If this isn't done properly, XP won't boot.

See http://fugitivethought.com/blog.php?action=view&blog_id=77 for more information.

Quite why information about the physical drive is written into the boot sector when it can be queried at any time from the drive itself escapes me, but I guess it made sense to someone at M$!

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