Norton Ghost 9.0 Problem - Copied disk won't load...

[GlynG]

I’m trying to upgrade my existing 80Gb SATA to my new 250Gb IDE drive but running into some difficulties.

I used Norton Ghost’s 9.0 copy disk feature, selecting the Check source for file system errors, Check destination for file system errors, Set drive active (for starting OS) and Copy MBR options.

It seemed to copy across fine, and the two disks looked indentical in windows explorer. I shut the computer down, disconnected the 80Gb disk and made sure the 250Gb disk was in the black ‘master’ cable selector connection. However the 250 Gb drive doesn't load up properly – the black windows screen with the loading bar comes up as normal but then it freezes on a a blue screen with the Windows XP logo.

I'm know reasonably what I'm doing with computers, but not that much, so I thought I'd ask around for help. Did I do something wrong somewhere or miss something out? Any suggestions for how I can get it to work?...

Thanks in advance for any replies!

Glyn

[pip22]

I read about this problem in a mag recently. Ghost works fine to create a backup disk-image for quick recovery. But copy disk to disk where XP is concerned is not forced to work. Works fine on other versions of Windows but not XP. You have to re-install XP from scratch on to the new disk to get it to run.

[GlynG]

Got it working at last earlier :-)

The fault must have been something to do with Norton Ghost's copying because when I tried cloning the drive with Acronis True Image 8.0 Trial it worked first time...

Thanks for the reply,

Glyn