ghost image hard drive problem

[SMatson]

I recently bought a WD Raptor Drive to add to my system. Win XP was installed on a 300GB DiamondMax10 and I used norton ghost to copy the Maxtor (C🙂 to the WD (E🙂. The operation seemed to go fine, but on reboot I cant get the computer to boot. No matter which drive I have hooked up I get the message "disk does not contain OS, Please replace and strike any key"

Any ideas?

Is is a drive letter issue?

Please help.

Scott

 

[boomerang]

Been there, done that. I recommend Acronis.

I tried Ghost and Drive Image before trying Acronis.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Did you do a partition-to-partition copy?

 

[SMatson]

There was only one partition on each drive.

I am able now to boot the old drive and the system sees the Raptor, but wont boot from it.

Any ideas how to get it to boot?

Scott

 

[corkyg]

Just "Ghosting" an image does not make it bootable. It has to then be Restored. Think CLONING the drive. The best advice is go Acronis TrueImage 8.0. It has a clearly defined CLONE function in the menu.

 

[SMatson]

Since I dont have TrueImage how do I "restore" the drive?

Thanks,
Scott

 

[NightCrawler]

Are the files on the new drive the same way they are on the old, since you can boot the old drive have a look around on the drives and make sure you unhide everything so you can see the hidden and system files.

Also check the boot.ini on both drives, the one on the new one may not point to the right partition and drive.