Disk Cloning

[Steve]

I had a 30gb drive that I Ghost disk copied to a new 120gb
drive. I set the new drive to the "primary" and the old as
the "secondary". The new drive booted fine but came up as
the E: drive with the old drive still being the C: drive.
I went in with disk admin to reassign the drive letter on
the old drive to F: so I could reassign the new drive to
C:. Upon rebooting, I was unable to logon receiving a
message about being unable to access the product
registration information. I appears the the OS is trying
to do the registration check against the old drive instead
of the new one and since C: is no longer available, the
check fails. Is there a way to switch this
registration "pointer" to the new drive or a different
sequence I should follow doing this? It doesn't make
sense that the OS would come off the new drive but
information on tha old drive would still be required.
Thanks for any help.
Steve

 

[Guest]

After I had the problem described below, I reset the
jumpers to make the original C: the primary again. I then
re-imaged to the new drive. Then I set the new drive as
the primary and unplugged the old drive. I got the same
registration verification error. It's worth noting that
even though the new drive was the only drive and being
seen as the primary, it was still getting E: as the
assigned drive id.

Thanks for the input.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
Hello Steve,

The cloned image seems to have been made on an OS that

was installed to C: which has all kinds of registry
entries expecting the OS on drive C. You need to setup
the new drive so that it becomes drive C, otherwise the
cloned system will not work. Reverify your Jumper
settings on the hard drives (and possible cable attachment
order). If this does not get the new drive to C:, try
leaving the old drive disconnected.