Changing Boot Drives

[Guest]

I have used Norton Ghost to copy my entire C drive over to a new HDD. I've
made the necessary BIOS changes, master/slave changes, etc - but my PC will
not boot from the new HDD. I have checked it and it is supposedly bootable
(has the necessary files - and I used that option in Ghost when I made the
copy), but no luch so far - I **have** to have the old C drive in place in
order to boot. The C drive, by the way, is old and is starting to crash
often, hence the migration to the new HDD.

Can anyone he'p me??
Thankuh...thankuh vera mush...

Elvis

 

[Rich Barry]

Elvis, did you make the new drive the active partition?

 

[Timothy Daniels]

I have used Norton Ghost to copy my entire C drive over
to a new HDD. I've made the necessary BIOS changes,
master/slave changes, etc - but my PC will not boot from
the new HDD. I have checked it and it is supposedly bootable
(has the necessary files - and I used that option in Ghost
when I made the copy), but no luch so far - I **have** to
have the old C drive in place in order to boot.

You don't say if the old HD is connected when you try
to boot with the new HD. If it's still part of the system,
you may have to adjust the entries in boot.ini file of the
new HD. What changes in the BIOS did you make?
What jumper changes did you make? Did you tell Ghost
to copy the MBR? Did you tell Ghost to make the clone's
partition "active"? Did you hide the "parent" OS when
you booted the clone for the 1st time?

*TimDaniels*