Nrton Ghost clone won't boot all the way

[ThePiston]

I get to the light blue screen just before total boot and it stalls. I've tried fixboot and fixmbr from the XP boot CD and still nothing. I think this is a problem with drive letters.. I cloned my C: drive onto the G: drive and I'm not sure how to get the thing to boot. Anyone solve this one yet?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

I cloned my C: drive onto the G: drive and I'm not sure how to get the thing to boot.

You're going to have to explain that:

- WHAT exactly did you do? Did you perform a "Disk to Disk" copy or did you just copy the partition?

- If you just copied the partition, did you make it the first Primary partition on the drive?

- If you did a disk to disk copy, is the new drive now connected as the Primary Master (same as the old one)?

- If the new drive is using a different controller than the old drive (if the old drive was an IDE and the new one is a SATA for instance) then you must do a repair install of Windows.

- If you only copied the partition then you need to use FDISK or Partition Magic or some other utility to make that partition "Active" or it won't boot, and it needs to be the first Primary partition on the drive.

 

[ThePiston]

I copied partitions on same IDE then booted with the new drive as "C" master and active.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

You still didn't answer some other important questions:

- So if I understand you only copied partition to partition, you did NOT the Disk to Disk, correct?

- Is there any reason you couldn't do a Disk to Disk copy instead of a partition copy (are there other partitions on the new drive you don't want to delete)? Disk to Disk generally works better. Partition copying can be a bit tricky.

- Were there other partitions on the new drive? If so is your copied boot partition the first primary partition on the new drive now?

- Was Norton GoBack or and Disk Manager installed on either the old or the new drives?

 

[LiLithTecH]

What version of GHOST are you using?
(you need version 7.5 or later for WinXP)