Help with trying to clone my hdd with Norton Ghost

[Mike_Amiga]

Intel Pentium D 3.4GHZ, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7300GT.
Source Disk: Maxtor 40GB HDD (PATA)
Destination: Seagate 500GB HDD (SATA)
Running XP SP2

I seem to have cloned my drive ok but for the fact it doesn't boot, but making the drive bootable was one of the many options I selected before starting the clone process.

Anyone with any ideas why it isn't booting past the "Welcome" screen?

[Mike_Amiga]

Using Version 12 of ghost. I'll look into that other stuff though.

Thanks all.

*edit* BTW I really don't want to reinstall, the whole point of getting ghost was to make a complete copy of all my existing stuff so i don't have it reinstall and configure everything all over again.

[Mike_Amiga]

by jasper on 2007/11/24 0:39:11

Perhaps you should check to see if the partition is set to "active" using a utility like Partition Magic

Never used Ghost myself because i'm happy using Powerquest Drive Image.

:-D Ok i'm just watering the daisies but, extract from review :-D "Drive Image 7 comes with an inadequate printed manual and has some maddening foibles, notably the inability to work reliably on dual-boot systems or to allow browsing of multiple image files on removable media. These are things that PowerQuest ought to address, and quickly, but knowing the company's past reluctance to introduce intermediary fixes and point-revisions, we're not holding our breath." :-D