Hi all.
I think I figured it out.
I've been reading several forums on issues with norton ghost 9.0 and problems with copying one hdd to another hdd, and one forum was this one. I did manage to make a successfull copy with a successfull boot. (in fact I did this five minutes ago and I am currently running off the "destination" disk).
Any way I wanted to let you guys know what I did in case it can help you in your efforts.
This is my set up:
win xp pro sp2
a single hard drive with clean completely redone install of winxp and all my software. (I will be keeping this in storage as a "master" disk for when ever I want to wipe my hdd clean and start over).
I have a second hdd that I want to copy this to and use as my everyday hdd. This is also in my comp set to "slave" on the same IDE channel as my "master" disk
One of the problems that I was having was that I could make a clean copy, but when I attempted to boot off that copy I would, as someone else also got, get a screen with the win xp logo and nothing else.
When I was setting up the copy I wanted to change the drive letter but was unable to as it was greyed out. What I did was this.
with both hdds in plugged in. My "master" disk as my boot disk (c
and my spare as a slave disk (on the same IDE channel) I then went to "start", right click on "my computer", left click on "manage", left click on "disk management". This will list both hdd's. I selected the slave disk, right click and selected "delete partition" and deleted it. It came up with some warning messages and asked if I wanted to force the deletion of the partition (or something along that line). I chose yes. Then I right clicked again to create a new partition. Under the options to create a new partition you can either choose a new drive leter or have no letter associated to it. I chose to NOT have a drive letter. Then it proceeded to ask if I wanted to format. Again I chose not to. After this was done I went back to Norton Ghost.
In the copy drive option in Norton Ghost 9.0 I now could choose a drive letter. But there was also an option for "none". I chose the "NONE" option as I fiqured this information would be copied durring the process, and it was. After copying was done I took out the "master" drive, changed the jumper settings on my "destination" drive to master and booted with no problems.
I hope this helps you guys.