What did I do wrong with this Ghost image?

[MBony]

I used Norton Ghost 9 last night and made an image on another hdd. I took my old one out and hooked up the new one. It loads as normal showing 'Windows XP' and the progression meter, then the blue screen with 'Microsoft Windows XP' (the screen right before it loads your profiles). And it just stops there. I told Ghost to make the image bootable and I can also see the hdd in the bios.

Any other suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

 

[Tarrant64]

This image was of your old hard drive correct? If so, then you may want to attempt to repair your installation. Run the setup on the Windows CD, choose the second option to repair the installation(not the repair console, but the second one where it prompts saying it has detected a previous version of windows, and asks if you would like to repair that installation).

No worries, all your old settings will remain the same and nothing will change. It will fix any corrupted files in your windows directory though.

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
This image was of your old hard drive correct?

Yes, the image was of my old hdd.

 

[corkyg]

This has always been my problem with Ghost. To do what you want to do, you don't "image," you clone. The result is an exact bit-by-bit duplicate drive, and if the source was bootable, the target will also be bootable.

That's why I use Acronis TrueImage with its far superior cloning function. I do it every two weeks and rotate my drives - I always have a spare drive ready to go.

 

[Auric]

By Ghost 9 do you mean the PowerQuest based one rather than Binary Research?

You may want to get the latter or else a freebee such as Terabyte CopyWipe or the utility provided by the manufacturer of the new drive (although they are notoriously slow).

If it began to boot at all then it must have been a clone and not an image file.

Run chkdsk on each volume of the old drive before cloning.

chkdsk c: /f /r

Then try again from a basic DOS version of your software, if possible, with a verify option if you want to be sure.

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: corkyg
This has always been my problem with Ghost. To do what you want to do, you don't "image," you clone. The result is an exact bit-by-bit duplicate drive, and if the source was bootable, the target will also be bootable.

That's why I use Acronis TrueImage with its far superior cloning function. I do it every two weeks and rotate my drives - I always have a spare drive ready to go.

I am officially a convert of this program. Good grief it is sweet! Ghost took 2.5hrs. to clone, this program took FIVE!

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! My system is back up and running great!

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: MBony

I am officially a convert of this program. Good grief it is sweet! Ghost took 2.5hrs. to clone, this program took FIVE!

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! My system is back up and running great!

Awesome, maybe in the next version they can triple the time required instead of just doubling it!

Err, yeah. Well glad you sort of got it sorted anyway.