Help needed cloning hard drive

[JonathanMichaelCosgrove]

Ok, I have a 160 GB harddrive I am updating from my old 40 GB drive. I
have previously been using it as a slave drive, but am now wanting to
upgrade to vista and need the extra disk space. So I purchased Norton
Ghost and ran the program for cloning. After doing this I opened up
the computer and rearranged the connections so that the 160 GB drive
was the only drive and adjusted it form being the slave drive. Well
when I start up the computer it will go to the blue screen that says
windows xp, the screen immediatly preceeding the screen that allows
you to click on which user you want to use (however it never goes to
this). Any ideas on what I have done wrong or a step by step to make
sur I can do this correctly.Thanks very much and I hope you guys can
help-Jon

 

[DL]

After the clone operation, you imediately shutdown your PC?
ie did'nt allow it to reboot

 

[Brian A.]

Ok, I have a 160 GB harddrive I am updating from my old 40 GB drive. I
have previously been using it as a slave drive, but am now wanting to
upgrade to vista and need the extra disk space. So I purchased Norton
Ghost and ran the program for cloning. After doing this I opened up
the computer and rearranged the connections so that the 160 GB drive
was the only drive and adjusted it form being the slave drive. Well
when I start up the computer it will go to the blue screen that says
windows xp, the screen immediatly preceeding the screen that allows
you to click on which user you want to use (however it never goes to
this). Any ideas on what I have done wrong or a step by step to make
sur I can do this correctly.Thanks very much and I hope you guys can
help-Jon

Which version of Ghost?
During the Copy Drive Wizard, did you select in the step Options to:
Check source for file system errors?
Check destination for file system errors?
Set the drive Active (for booting OS)?
Copy MBR?

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[JonathanMichaelCosgrove]

After the clone operation, you imediately shutdown your PC?
ie did'nt allow it to reboot

after the clone I shut down the computer, no reboot first

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Ok, I have a 160 GB harddrive I am updating from my old 40 GB drive.
I have previously been using it as a slave drive, but am now wanting to
upgrade to vista and need the extra disk space. So I purchased Norton
Ghost and ran the program for cloning. After doing this I opened up
the computer and rearranged the connections so that the 160 GB drive
was the only drive and adjusted it form being the slave drive. Well
when I start up the computer it will go to the blue screen that says
windows xp, the screen immediatly preceeding the screen that allows
you to click on which user you want to use (however it never goes to
this). Any ideas on what I have done wrong or a step by step to make
sur I can do this correctly.Thanks very much and I hope you guys can
help-Jon

Ghost gives you the option to copy the MBR and to set the destination
partition "active". The MBR is needed for a HD to be the boot control drive,
and the "active" setting is needed if there are more than one Primary partition
on the boot drive. Did you select both of these options?

BTW, when there is only one HD in the system, it will automatically
become the booting drive regardless of its jumper settings. Don't worry
about Master/Slave, as there is *nothing* preventing a HD jumpered as
Slave from being the boot drive. The only significance of Master/Slave
(besides to simply to differentiate between 2 HDs on the same cable) is
to determine the *default* boot priority for HDs. That *default* boot
priority for PATA drives is:

Master, channel 0
Slave, channel 0
Master, channel 1
Slave, channel 1

But this default order can be rearranged in the BIOS by the user, thereafter
making the default HD boot priority irrelevant.

*TimDaniels*

 

[JonathanMichaelCosgrove]

Ghost gives you the option to copy the MBR and to set the destination
partition "active". The MBR is needed for a HD to be the boot control drive,
and the "active" setting is needed if there are more than one Primary partition
on the boot drive. Did you select both of these options?

BTW, when there is only one HD in the system, it will automatically
become the booting drive regardless of its jumper settings. Don't worry
about Master/Slave, as there is *nothing* preventing a HD jumpered as
Slave from being the boot drive. The only significance of Master/Slave
(besides to simply to differentiate between 2 HDs on the same cable) is
to determine the *default* boot priority for HDs. That *default* boot
priority for PATA drives is:

Master, channel 0
Slave, channel 0
Master, channel 1
Slave, channel 1

But this default order can be rearranged in the BIOS by the user, thereafter
making the default HD boot priority irrelevant.

*TimDaniels*

Ok, so I went through and did the process again and got the same
results, this time I was sure to select MBR and another thing that was
something about making the new hard drive bootable...same blue windows
xp screen, but it wont allow me to log on? Any clues anyone?? you guys
have been very helpfull and hope that you can help me get this thing
figured out-JonOk, so I went through and did the process again and got
the same results, this time I was sure to select MBR and another thing
that was something about making the new hard drive bootable...same
blue windows xp screen, but it wont allow me to log on? Any clues
anyone?? you guys have been very helpfull and hope that you can help
me get this thing figured out-Jon

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Ok, so I went through and did the process again and got the same
results, this time I was sure to select MBR and another thing that
was something about making the new hard drive bootable...same
blue windows xp screen, but it wont allow me to log on? Any clues
anyone?? you guys have been very helpfull and hope that you can
help me get this thing figured out-Jon

You didn't say how many partitions there are on the 160GB HD
that you are transferring WinXP to. If there is already one partition
and you are telling Ghost to make another partition for the clone,
the boot.ini file won't point to the correct partition from which to
load the OS. If there is only one pre-existing partition on the 160GB
HD, and it takes up the entire disk space, that's OK - just tell Ghost
to put the clone there. But if you are telling Ghost to use currently
unallocated disk space, that may be the problem. If that is the case,
all you have to do is change the "partition()" parameter in the boot.ini
file of the clone. But tell us what the situation is.

*TimDaniels*