ghosted Destination Disc Unable to Boot

[TannyLiu]

Problem Description:

Sourse Disk(SD): 20G, running windows XP, NTFS

Destination Disk(DD): 80G, formated and partitioned to 2 NTFS, 30G+ 50G, no
OS.

In windows XP, copy all important system files and data files over to the
50G Partition;

Use Norton Ghost 2003, Partion to Partion clone under DOS to clone SD to the
30G partition.

---the clone process completed successfully and promoted me to restart
computer.

---power off the computer after chose the "restart computer"

---remove SD, plug in all other IDE devices;

---plug in DD to where SD was;

---reboot system:

The following Message Comes out:

Verifying DMI data pool.......
Boot Disk failure, replace the system disk and press any key

--press anykey, the pc hanged over there;

--restart, the same thing happen;

--plug in the SD back to the computer,the same error message, but after
press anykey, back to widnows XP F8 start menu, choose "boot normally",
system started and everything back to normal, restart, no more error
message, boot to xp directly..

Now the problem is destination disc can not boot...How to Solve?

Anyone has similar experience? please advise, thanks in advance.

 

[D.Currie]

Problem Description:

Sourse Disk(SD): 20G, running windows XP, NTFS

Destination Disk(DD): 80G, formated and partitioned to 2 NTFS, 30G+ 50G, no
OS.

In windows XP, copy all important system files and data files over to the
50G Partition;

Use Norton Ghost 2003, Partion to Partion clone under DOS to clone SD to the
30G partition.

---the clone process completed successfully and promoted me to restart
computer.

---power off the computer after chose the "restart computer"

---remove SD, plug in all other IDE devices;

---plug in DD to where SD was;

---reboot system:

The following Message Comes out:

Verifying DMI data pool.......
Boot Disk failure, replace the system disk and press any key

--press anykey, the pc hanged over there;

--restart, the same thing happen;

--plug in the SD back to the computer,the same error message, but after
press anykey, back to widnows XP F8 start menu, choose "boot normally",
system started and everything back to normal, restart, no more error
message, boot to xp directly..

Now the problem is destination disc can not boot...How to Solve?

Anyone has similar experience? please advise, thanks in advance.

Instead of plugging everything in right away, do it one at a time. And make
sure your jumpers are set properly for the new configuration.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

A Partition to Partition clone with Ghost does not bring the Master Boot
Record (MBR) over. You should have done a Disk to Disk clone, with expanded
partition. instead. This would have created the new 30GB partition and
copied the MBR.

You could now try to do an XP repair install.

Y.