Ghost a Windows XP installation on same PC?

[Technogeek]

Has anyone ever Ghosted a Windows XP and have it boot on the same PC? I tried creating a clone of my 20 Gig drive onto a new 160 Gig drive, and after completion and powering down then switching the 160 Gig to primary master (setting the 20 Gig aside) it will not boot. I have tried 3 times, I even tried with the Maxtor software but the new cloned drive will not boot at all in the same PC.

Just wondering what good is Ghost if you cannot clone a XP drive?

Any help appreciated, Thanks ô¿ô

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Technogeek
Has anyone ever Ghosted a Windows XP and have it boot on the same PC? I tried creating a clone of my 20 Gig drive onto a new 160 Gig drive, and after completion and powering down then switching the 160 Gig to primary master (setting the 20 Gig aside) it will not boot. I have tried 3 times, I even tried with the Maxtor software but the new cloned drive will not boot at all in the same PC.

Just wondering what good is Ghost if you cannot clone a XP drive?

Any help appreciated, Thanks ô¿ô

Ghost the entire drive, not just the partition.
Confirm you have SP1 installed.

Cheers.

 

[Technogeek]

It is set up with only one partition on each drive, I cloned the entire drive. And SP1 is installed.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Technogeek
It is set up with only one partition on each drive, I cloned the entire drive. And SP1 is installed.

I've done this dozens of times successfully. What errors pop up? Can you boot with a boot disk with boot.ini, ntdetect, and ntldr on it?

 

[juancferrer]

maybe you just made an image of the drive instead of cloning. I did that once..pretty funny when i found out what i had done.

 

[Jiggz]

I've tried this before in fact just a couple of days ago. But the other hdd was a external USB interface. Come to find out the cloned hdd will not boot. So what I did I first partitioned it on XP and transfer system files to make sure it's bootable. Then I cloned. it works!