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New HDD / Ghost Problem

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Sisko

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I just bought a new 5400 rpm drive to replace my old 4200 rpm drive. I connected the drive to an external usb 2 enclosure made by Triton Technologies. I then used Norton Ghost 2003 to clone the old drive onto the new one. After that, I put the new drive into the laptop but it won't boot. It will get past the bios screen and then just start blinking. I tried cloning the drive several times with different options but I can't get it to work.

Could it be a problem with the drive enclosure? Maybe Ghost isn't compatiabel with the enclosure?

Anyone ever expereince this or know what to do?

Thanks,
Sisko
 
Sisko said:
clone the old drive onto the old one.
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:confused:

Think you want to clone to the new one??


Have you tried to format the new drive first and then do the clone process??
 
is your laptop by any chance a Dell?



I tried doing the same thing as you on Monday night; failed. I think it has something to do with the diagnostics partition...but can't be sure.

I just reformatted the guy's laptop and copied everything over from the old drive. It wasn't the 15 minute job I'd hoped for, but his system is running much faster than it was before.
 
Check the partition on the new drive to make sure it is set active.

A better way is to make an image of your current drive to some other location (CD, DVD, another external drive, network share, etc,) then restoring to your new disk. That is how I transfer to a new hard disk.

Good Luck!
 
I spent a long time trying to do the exact same thing with an emachines and never got it to work. I wasted many hours that night.

Finally I tried Partition Magic, and it worked the first time. I cloned about 40 Gigs, too. The only tricky part was that the new drive was smaller than the old one and Partition Magic wouldn't "downgrade" to a smaller drive, so I had to do some creative partition modification on the old drive before I could clone..

I don't use Ghost now.
 
Perhaps an incompatibility in ghost? Depending on how ghost works it may require the image to be put on an identical drive for it to decompress correctly.
 
viper11885 said:
:confused:

Think you want to clone to the new one??


Have you tried to format the new drive first and then do the clone process??
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Oops. Typo. Yeah I cloned to the new one.

I have tried formating the new drive first and then cloning but that gives the same result.
 
I have a HP ZT3000.

I checked the partition and it is set to active. I was hoping for a quicker method other than creating an image of the drive and then restoring. The only medium I can save it on is cd's and it will take a bunch.

Does Partition magic resize the new partitions (i have 3) so that it makes full use of the new bigger hard drive like Norton Ghost?
 
I will have to highly recommend the Ultimate Boot Disk.

It has partition tools on it as well as a ghosting program called g4u.

This is THE solution if you are on a 10/100 network.

What g4u does is it creates an image of your hard drive or partition, gzips it, and sends it through FTP to a local computer.

To deploy the image is real easy also. Just read the documentation for g4u.

I recently went from a 80g 4200rpm to a 60g 7200rpm.

What I did was I shrunk the partition down to 40 gigs, then I created an image of it. I'll assume you use WinXP.

Then I connected it to my network, and booted off the Ultimate Boot Disk.

I have an FTP server set up using BulletProof on my main computer, and an account called "install" with any password.

I defrag the drive, then zero it (using a program found in the documentation known as nullfile). This way it decreases the image file size.

Then in g4u (which uses a UNIX interface), I create the image, and send it to my FTP on my desktop computer. UNIX doesn't support wireless, so you have to use an actual cable.

After that's done (a few hours), go do the dirty work and replace the hard drive.

Boot back into the Ultimate Boot CD and go into the Ranish Partition manager. Delete all partitions and use the wizard to make a FAT32 partition of at least 40 gigs (it has to be over, to be safe) or whatever size your partition was before. Set the boot flag on the new partition, and press Insert to change it into NTFS (it says not supported, but that doesn't matter because we're going to deploy an image on it anyways).
F2 to save, and go back out.

Start up g4u again, and deploy the image, in the same partition it was on the old drive (mine was wd0e). After that, all should be well.

I did all this, and successfully replaced my 80g hard drive with my much faster 60g hard drive. The difference is quite noticeable, especially the boot times (it takes less than 15 seconds to get into the XP logins screen).

I use an LG LM50 with Centrino Dothan 1.7GHz.

I hope this helps, and best of all, everything on the Ultimate Boot CD is free and legal. You don't have to go to suprnova to download Ghost!
 
What he said. Ghost was good before it got Nortonized. Now its just as crappy as all of their other software.
 
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