Norton Ghost experts...I need help

[Macros746]

Hi again,
yet another bizarre hardware issue. I have taken the smaller of my two hard drives (my boot drive) out of my system to be the guts of a computer I am building for my parents. But, before I moved it, I ghosted the image to my other HD. So I installed the larger drive that I bought to replace the one I am giving my parents and divided it into two partitions and then dumped the images of each partition of my old drive onto my new drive. I assumed that this meant that then my new drive should boot up and behave exactly as my old one had. But it doesn't. I looked under options of Ghost and found the boot copy and copy all options. But the only function that works is the 'default' setting. How can I fix this? I really don't want to have to reinstall EVERYTHING again. I know the Windows folder went over when I did the image dump...so why isn't it booting? Is this because I dumped the two partitions (800 megs and 7.2 gigs) onto much larger partitions (5 gigs and 35 gigs respectively)? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Macros

[ngnr]

It's been a while since I Ghosted so this may be no help but I'll suggest this in case you haven't already done it:

Make the new drive the master.
Run FDISK from a floppy and make the boot partition active on the new drive.

[Macros746]

I think I did that....but I wonder if, when ghosting, it copies over that. Oh, just to clarify things, the new drive IS the boot drive now (as it replaced my old boot drive) I just can't get it to boot I will definitely try the fdisk fix tonight. If it is something that stupid I will kick myself in the face.

Macros

[cballinger]

You don't mention what version of Ghost you are using but I believe the only way you can get the new drive to boot is if you made an image copy when you told ghost to backup your old drive. Only then do the boot sectors, etc. get written to your cd for restore. If you have both drives (old and new) and then ghosted between them you'd need to do an image copy (works great from a smaller drive to a larger drive). I normally make an image and then burn a CD from that and then load the new drive after booting off the ghost floppy.

[Macros746]

Thanks for the responses. I guess I'm not clear on what I was doing. I had two harddrives in my rig. 1 8 gig, 1 40 gig. The 8 gig was the master boot disc. I put an image of the 8 gig drive onto the 40 gig drive and then removed the 8 gig drive. Then I installed a new 40 gig drive in place of the 8 gig drive. I divided the new drive into two partitions: 1 5 gig partition, 1 35 gig partition. Then I copied the 2 gig partition C from my old 8 gig disc to the 5 gig partition C: on my new drive. Then I copied the 7.2 gig image from my old drive to the 35 gig partition of my new drive. Then I tried to boot....nothing. But, through DOS, all of the files do seem to be there...it just isn't booting. Is there something in the options that I need to select to make this happen? Is is because I am copying a smaller image to a larger partition? Should I make the new partition identicle to the old?

HELP!

Macros

p.s. Thanks for all your responses....

[ngnr]

When you said "copied" I am assuming you meant ghosted, (semantics I know but an important distinction) and you did that AFTER you partitioned because that's how you need to do it. If you try the FDISK thing I suggested and it does not work, then use the SYS C: command to copy the system files to the boot drive and it should boot - assuming the system files on the floppy are the same as your boot drive system. This is kind of tough to diagnose without having a real time chat so excuse me if I am missing some of your steps in the order that you did them in.

[Macros746]

Yes, I do mean ghosted.... And I tried to 'ghost' the image onto the new drive after I partitioned them. It seemed to work smoothly. It was only the boot issue that I am concerned with. I will try the sys C: thing as well....hmmmm.

Macros

[psycaz]

When you ghosted the new image to the new drive, did you use Partition from Image or disk from image? I tried what you want to do, but ended up having to remove the partition and then ghost the 8 gig image to the 40 gig partition. After that I used a third party program to change the partition size down from 40 to 8 then setup the other 32. I used Partition Manager 5.0 Personal version because I was dealing with W2K Advanced Server. Maybe someone else can recommend freeware that will do same thing.
Problem I had is when doing the image to partition, it sent the wrong size information too, I had ghosted a 40 gig drive with about 6 gb worth of data, when I ghosted that to my 8 gb partition, upon reboot, the 8 gb showed as 40 the second partition was there as 32 - saw this in ghost, wouldn't go into Wndows. I think it skews the boot record or something when you are dealig with partitions - never had a problem with different size drives as long as there was space for the extracted image.

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[Macros746]

Well all thanks to your help my mission of fixing my computer last night was an overwhelming success. It turned out all I had to do was make the new partition active. Thanks NGNR for that suggestion. Now my computer works just the same as it ever did....and I have so much more room....

Thanks everyone,

Macros