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Trying to clone drive from old PC to new PC
Using Norton Ghost. Files are there, but new PC can't read drive. Best I get is NTLDR error. Tried boot.ini disk. Nothing works. What is wrong????
 
Dave said:
Trying to clone drive from old PC to new PC.
Using Norton Ghost. Files are there, but new PC can't read drive. Best I
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get is NTLDR error. Tried boot.ini disk. Nothing works. What is wrong?????
try booting from your CD and from the repair console

try: fixboot
fixmbr


also be sure your partition is set active
 
Cloning with Ghost only works properly across platforms of the SAME model. You don't clone
from one PC to another different type platform. By definition it CAN'T be a clone if the
source and destination platforms are different.

What you should do is install the OS and applications on the new platform and then insert
the old drive as a "D:" drive on the new platform and copy data from the "D:" drive to the
"C:" drive.

Dave



| Trying to clone drive from old PC to new PC.
| Using Norton Ghost. Files are there, but new PC can't read drive. Best I get is NTLDR
error. Tried boot.ini disk. Nothing works. What is wrong?????
|
 
I have used Norton Ghost several times and it worked
fine. Your problem seems to be occurring because you are
cloning machines with different hardware abstraction
layers.
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Trying to clone drive from old PC to new PC.
Using Norton Ghost. Files are there, but new PC can't
Click to expand...
read drive. Best I get is NTLDR error. Tried boot.ini
disk. Nothing works. What is wrong?????
 
Dave said:
Trying to clone drive from old PC to new PC.
Using Norton Ghost. Files are there, but new PC can't read drive. Best I
Click to expand...
get is NTLDR error. Tried boot.ini disk. Nothing works. What is wrong?????
Ghosting a drive implies that similar hardware (same HAL) must match.
Ghosting disimilar hardware usually only works with a Standard Hal.

In your case, depending on what ghosting utility you used, whether you
ghosted a drive or partition, whether you respected the original drive
hierarchy, you might want to verify if the primary partition is designated
as active. If it is active, boot from CD, start recovery console and
fixboot.
 
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