Boot from one HDD to another

[1landshark]

I seem to have a bad HDD and I have a copy of my C drive made by Norton Ghost 9.0.
I cannot boot the "copied" HDD even though it is set to be bootable. Is there a way to change over to anther HDD once I am booted up on my C drive? Can I boot to the C drive and then transfer over to my G drive?
Thanks for assistance

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, A couple of posts back this was discussed. Seems that Ghost does not always make a bootable CLONE of the drive. I've seen other CLONERS make the same mistake. Maybe because you are cloning to the SLAVE drive. Ghost may be makeing a DATA Disk and not a BOOTABLE disk. A bootable disk will have these files in the ROOT: COMMAND.COM (Visiable), IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS (Hidden).
Hope this helps a bit. Jim

 

[ElFenix]

do a repair of windows using the windows disc

 

[amdskip]

I wouldn't bother. I would backup your data and do a fresh install of windows on your hard drive.

 

[1landshark]

I finally made a copy with Acronis anf the HDD boots up. But I was still wondering if it is possible to change over to another HDD that I did not boot up on.
Thanks for assistance

 

[amdskip]

So you want to change over to a hard drive that has windows installed on it that you did not boot with? Ummm no.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: 1landshark
I finally made a copy with Acronis anf the HDD boots up. But I was still wondering if it is possible to change over to another HDD that I did not boot up on.
Thanks for assistance

change over to? what do you mean? both drives should be accessible from within windows.

 

[0roo0roo]

use fdisk, set that disc to bootable or active or whatever. bios set to boot from that drive? i've used ghost plenty. as long as u restore image of partition or disc to the primary partition of destination drive it'll work fine. sounds like u left the old drive in and its booting from it first because bios is looking at drive 1 first. remove it and swap cables as the most dummy proof way.