Ghosting windows 2000

[aasra]

Ok
Here is the story:
The pc is 1.7 ghz with 1g RAM , with windows 2000 pro, standalone ( no network environment). the harddrive ( WD 80GB) went bad ( i got the error at boot up that said: problems with hdd you may need to change the hard drive ) or something like that ,So I bought an identical one and tried norton ghost 7.0 to ghost the old HDD ( it was still booting but very very slow (10 minutes to load win2k) it took 26 hours to ghost and after that when I tried to boot from new hdd I got this message :

windows 2000 could not start because of a computer hardware configuration.....
....
I know that Ghost 7.0 enterprise version is compatible with win2k.
I checked MS web site and it just tells you how ot make a boot disk !!!!!! when encountered with that error. It also says something about signature() entry in boot.ini which I checked and changed to multi() format and it did not work either.
I have a lot of applications installed and a lot of data.
Can anyone tell me if there is a solution other than reintalling the OS again.
By the way the file format is NTFS
Thanks to everyone

 

[matheusber]

well .. its a bit away .. but i heard that win2k is damaging the harddisks when shutting down ... something about doing this too fast
i really thought i lost my old one and then realized it was ok, i read that and then changed it to my fathers pc and its fine ... and here my new one was about to have the same trouble and then after reading i went XP, i'd rather win2k but i wont loose my harddrive for this ...

what about you try to repair your win2k installation ?
maybe it helps ... i'm not sure ... i've never tried it ...

matheus