On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:12:32 +0000, mdp Has Frothed:
> wrote:
>> Hi dear all:
>>
>> I just used Norton Ghost 9.0 to backup the whole hard drive from my my
>> old 150GB EIDE HDD to my new 320GB SATA HDD, and these are the options
>> that I selected (X means checked):
>>
>> X Check source for file system errors X Check destination for file
>> system errors X Resize drive to fill unallocated space X Set drive
>> active (for boothing OS)
>>
>> I also set the Destination partition type to be "Primary partition" (but
>> didn't assign drive letter), and for advanced configuration option, I
>> also checked the "Copy MBR"
>>
>> The copying process went smoothly, however, after I backup the HDD, turn
>> off the PC, and unplug the 150 EIDE old HDD (so that the only drive
>> available is the new SATA 320GB HDD), and reboot it again, the windows
>> XP Pro will prompt me if I want to have a normal start or command line
>> start (behave like you didn't turn off the PC correctly, which I did),
>> and if I select the "normal start", it will load the Windows XP Pro
>> logo, and after few seconds, reboot the whole PC again. If I choose the
>> command line (or safe mode), it will load up to gagp30kx.sys driver and
>> then freeze. If I connect both drive (EIDE and SATA), it will also keep
>> rebooting itself, however, if I unplug the new SATA drive, everything
>> back to normal and I could boot into XP Pro again...
>>
>> Any idea why is this?? Is there any other walk-around for solving this
>> problem? Many thanks!
>
> I agree with MP, go with Acronis. In the meantime, check the file
> boot.ini in the root directory. Norton will change this when it needs to,
> and perhaps when it doesn't.
I've had Ghost 9 render the source drive of a PC non-bootable. Acronis
does a good job fast. However I once had to clone a drive twice becauseof
an error so nothing is perfect especially when working with NTFS.
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Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004
COOSN-266-06-25794
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