Help with Ghost 2003

[mykeowl]

Whenever I do a direct clone disk to disk, the newly cloned disk hangs just before the windows desktop, unless the original hard drive remains in the system.

Help!!

[Sterling_Aug]

Was the new drive also in the system while the old drive was booted and running?

Sounds like you need to edit the boot.ini file on the new drive.

Have you tried safe mode yet?

[mykeowl]

Yes, the new drive was in the system because I ran Ghost through Windows.
How do you edit the boot.ini file?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Before you do the ghosting operation, enter device manager and (Right Click on "My Computer" select properties, then Hardware tab followed by the "Device Manager" button). Select Disk Drives from the tree and Right Click on all disks and select uninstall. You'll be asked to reboot, select no. Shut Down the PC and boot from your Ghost boot disk and carry out the ghosting operation.

That should fix it

--Jakk

[mykeowl]

Jakk, I tried your suggestion but still no luck. I even formatted the drive first and it didn't make a difference. I know that Ghost put some kind of an ID on the drive, does formatting remove that?

[mykeowl]

Problem solved. My mistake was doing a partition to partition instead of disk to disk.
When I did disk to disk and swapped the hard drives, it worked.

[dajogejr]

Just a quick note for all on this. I've never had any luck with ghost within Windows. A DOS bootable floppy is always best.

It creates a "virtual partition" and when it reboots...nothing but havoc. I had to search symantec's site how to remove this virtual partition, and make the primary partition active again.

However...Acronis true image has a nice...friendly GUI..in case you want another option.

[mykeowl]

I just got the Acronis true image. Can't wait to try it.