help with ghosting

[xFuryofFivex]

My boot drive is getting old, and is clicking from time to time...i cant seem to ghost it over to a new partition i made on one of the my storage drives, everything copies over. except it wont let me boot from the newly made image.
I used powerquest image drive 2002, copied drive C to unallocated space. rebooted went through the process, when windows rebooted. i still had unlettered drive with the C: intact. ive done this before on other machines and it worked fine. but in my case nothing..i tried using partition magic 8 to change the drive letter, and it still works fine. but still boots from the same drive.

Maybe someone can give me some suggestions on maybe what im doing wrong.

 

[bigredcat]

Did you change the HDD boot priority in the BIOS? I'm assuming you are leaving the old HDD in the computer? If so all you have to do is change the boot priority. Just tell it to boot off the other drive.

 

[xFuryofFivex]

ill take a quick glance, yeah i wanna leave it in there until i can purchase another drive to take everything off of it. in the meantime i was just buying time heh.

 

[xFuryofFivex]

alright i tried reghosting it again.. tried changing boot options, changing drive letters...i noticed that comp management, the boot drive is still listed as System drive... would that affect me in any way. cuz i think im still booting from that drive