Norton Ghost 2003 Cloning

[Kolin Tregaskes]

Hello,

I have tried cloning my boot HD and it does not load up on my other
computer. I am running Windows XP Pro SP1 (fully updated) and Norton Ghost
2003. The disk to disk cloning process seem to go OK (though I had to
select no virtual parition memory as Ghost said it could not defragment it
(when I had just degraffed the whole drive just before).

Once the cloning was complete, I took out the drive, set it to master and
plugged it into my second machine. But just before getting to the Windows
boot screen I get a blue crash screen with no useful information part from
"...an error has occurred...".

Is this down to my two computer having different hardware? I didn't select
any hardware options in Ghost before I started to disk to disk cloning.

Any ideas why it's not working? What way can I get my boot drive cloned
from my first machine so it will work on my second computer?

Also, how do you clone 2 slave drives? I have tried peer-to-peer, but one
of my computers has a few errors just before going into Ghost's DOS screen
and the peer-to-peer options are greyed out (works fine on my other
computer).

Kol
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[Kolin Tregaskes]

Hi again,

Is there any other software (other than Ghost) that might be able to help)?

Kol

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The cloned drive would have worked correctly, if you had placed it as the
master drive of the PC where your original boot HD was connected to. Now,
you are moving the newly cloned drive to another computer. This will not
work because of XP's product activation. Product activation will not allow
XP to boot unless the hardware configuration matches the configuration that
was used to activate XP. It is not certain that the two computers are 100%
exactly the same. You will now need to do a XP repair re-install.

Y.

 

[Kolin Tregaskes]

Hi there,

Repairing doesn't work. I have CHKDSK the drive and repaired it via the
boot-up option, but still get the error message.

Kol

 

[Kolin Tregaskes]

Hi Y,

Do you think that will be the only thing stopping it from working, would any
hardware compatibility problems come into play as well?

Kol

 

[Kolin Tregaskes]

Hi again,

I think it's also do to with hardware compatibility. When I go into Safe
Mode with the cloned drive on my second computer I see at the bottom
DMX3131.SYS (or similar), this is my SCSI card on my first machine. Is
there no way round this?

I have put the boot drive from my first machine into the second machine and
like you said it doesn't boot up. :-(

Kol

 

[Kolin Tregaskes]

If this helps I wrote down the code from the blue screen (though it's not on
MS Support web site, I'm sure it's a boot device error code):

0x0000007b (0xF78A2640), 0xC0000034,....

Translation please?

I'm sure there was a site that explained all these codes?

Kol