ghosting to new hard drive didn't work

[marklp77]

Hi, hope someone ran into the same thing....

I ghosted (2003 retail) an image of a 2G partition with Win2k which I then
put on a 2G partition of a new hard drive. Same computer,
new hard drive, primary partition. It wouldn't boot. When I
gave in and ran Win 2k setup it did not recognize the imaged
partition as having a windows install.

Any insight as to why this didn't work?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[corkyg]

You can't do a straight image and have it work. You need a true copy of the source drive with all system files and MBR faithfully copied and placed in exactly the right spot. Norton Ghost can do that, buyt it is not the regular imaging process. To make such an image bootable, it would have be be "restored."

 

[lobadobadingdong]

did you export(extract) the image or just copy the image file to the other partion?

 

[lucky9]

You can do it with Ghost but as corky-g said an image is not a one to one "copy" of the disk. The docs with Ghost will tell you how to make one. It's a real time saver.:beer:

 

[marklp77]

I believe my mistake was when i used a dos version of partition magic to
divide up the new hard drive it made all 4 partitions logical and "unallocated"
was set to primary. I set the first partition to primary, but then didn't "SET ACTIVE"
that partition.

I'll test my theory monday...

Thanks all!

 

[fornax]

If you can connect both drives together in the same computer, just use Ghost to copy the source partiton to the target one (they don't have to be the same size). Never had problems doing it this way. Since Ghost copies the MBR and everything, it shouldn't matter if the partion is set up as active or not.

 

[LordOfAll]

yes you need to set the os partition as active.

 

[LordOfAll]

actually I take that back, i believe the partition with the ntldr on it needs to be active. if you only have 1 os that is the os partition.