New hard drive wont boot after having everything copied using Norton Ghost?

Question

I recently purchased a 250GB 16 Cache Western digital and I copied my O/S and programs from my current hard drive. I then tried to boot the 250GB without the smaller 80G. And it gets to the part were the Windows loading screen is then freezes up on the blue welcome screen? I created one primary partition on the new drive NTSF do I need to creat a boot partition on the new drive as well? A little confused here.

Answer 1

For your best results, I would do a clean install of the OS on the new drive, and make sure it boots first. Then copy the remainder of your files to the new disk.

Answer 2

Did you use Ghost through Windows? If so, your new drive was probably made to be the D: or G:drive instead of C so now Windows is confused because it wants to boot from C:



You need to make a Ghost boot CD if you don't have one, boot to it, then re-do the ghost so Windows can't give the drive a letter.



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Answer 3

I think your problem is that you didn't Format the drive as a system drive. Formatting as a system drive puts additional boot information at the beginning of the drive. I'm not sure if Norton copies that info as it could be drive specific. Anyway, I'm only guessing but that is what it sounds like.



You can reformat it as a system drive and recopy everything and see if that works.

Answer 4

i might use the dd command build into linux/unix. it is going to have no problems copying the 80gb troublesome disk onto the 5 hundred gb and leaving the unused area as unpartitioned so u can boost the 80gb to 500 or make new partitions... all of which could be completed on the ubuntu stay cd.. (partition editor is in device > admin > partition editor) and there are fairly some dd tutorials, whether this is rather straight forward to do. playstation : sorry for advertising linux in the two your questions... in straight forward terms basically observed they we the comparable individual