Disabling automatic reboot on Norton Ghost after cloning?

[InfiniteSadness]

Is there any way to stop Ghost from automatically rebooting itself after it finishes cloning. My problem is I want to clone an XP drive and make the newer, bigger drive the C: drive. However after it clones, it reboots itself and xp automatically assigns the new drive to E:, thus making it impossible to boot up from newer drive.

The dilemma is explained here

I keep getting that "cannot check for license message." The article suggests shutting down the computer. The only way I got it to work the last time was through trial and error. Such a headache because I had to manually shut it down and after about 20 attempts, I managed to shut down at the precise moment where it finished cloning and xp didn't assign the drive letter. Is there a better way to do this?

 

[DalyTek]

You cannot disable Ghost's reboot, but there is not a problem with booting to a cloned drive. I am sending you a PM...

 

[dunkster]

Make a Ghost boot disk.

Use the Ghost boot disk to clone the drive (or individual partitions) to CDs.

FDISK and Format the new drive.

Use the Ghost boot disk to Restore disk/partitions to new drive from CDs.

Absolutely no chance of unwanted re-boot. All operations done in DOS.

Hope this helps!

 

[InfiniteSadness]

Thanks dunkster and Dalytek. I found out if you clone from the Ghost boot disk instead of XP, it will not automatically reboot itself. I just shut it down and booted it up from new drive to have xp enable it as the master C: drive. :-D