upgrading drive - can't get it to boot

[Kilgore65]

I have used Norton Ghost to copy my existing drive with XP on it directly to a new 200GB Western Digitial HD. I have set the new drive as active, and as the primary master. When I disconnect my old drive and try to boot up with the new drive, I end up with just a blinking cursor at the end of the DOS routine (POST routine?). The BIOS recognizes the new drive, but XP does not load. What am I doing wrong here?

 

[Kilgore65]

bump, need help, folks

 

[BoboKatt]

OK well heck I just did this last night and I had no luck. I had Ghost do the ?copy one drive to another" option used to go from say an older smaller drive to a new drive. Anyhow as it starts to copy I get the message that something is using my other drive and I must shut if down. To the best of my knowledge there was nothing but I still went through and shut down anything in the background and all things in my task manager and task bar but still it wont. It then gives you an option to just dismount the drive which I did. It then continues. I enabled in the advanced options (check marks) to make the new drive bootable and copy the MBR option. Anyhow it finishes... I shut down.. unplug old and boot up and it actually starts loading WinXP ? makes it all the way to the nice XP log in screen and then just nada. The mouse moves and all but I get nothing for hours.. just dead.

One thing I did read and will try it tonight. After you have cloned the info to the new drive DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT look at your drive to see if the stuff was copied. I just read this corrupts your newly cloned drive... and just fries the installation (not the hardware itself). Thus you must after the clone shut down immediately and then unplug the old and boot from the new. Give that a try and again after it has finished copying, close Ghost and just SHUT down.. do not look at the new drive to see if all was copied. It has something to do with having two primary active drives.

 

[Kilgore65]

Wierd... I fixed a portion of the drive that had a little 7.8MB partition written to it (by merging it into a larger parition), put a 'single' jumper on the WD drive, and it started flawlessly... oh well, I guess Norton Ghost does work... hmmm