Norton Ghost 2003 (Clone Help, from a Pro)

[malice19]

Norton Ghost 2003 (Clone Help, from a Pro)

I have used Norton Ghost to clone my Maxtor IDE drive onto my Seagate SATA drive,
when the cloning had finished the PC rebooted and i got back into windows and it comes up as
C: Maxtor
and
D: Seagate

Checked the D: drive and it has cloned the drive like it should and all ok...But
when turning PC off and then disconnecting the Maxtor and leaving the Seagate it comes up with OS error ....

I tried to do windows repair on it but still no joy

Does it matter that i cloned a IDE HDD onto a ATA HDD?

Any one have any ideas? Would be very Grateful for your Posts!

[Norky]

What error?

[malice19]

What error?

Thats it all i get on screen is
" OS Error"

Thats all i get no other INFO
Good old Windows always a Good help

[fei]

when ever i used ghost to clone a SATA drive to a ide drive it just hangs trying to boot

[schrickvr6]

Have you set the new drive as a 'master'?

[jon bda]

Have you set the new drive as a 'master'?

No need with a SATA drive. One problem could be that there won't be a SATA driver in your Ghost image, so the PC won't actually be able to 'read' the hdd...

[schrickvr6]

Oops still got my beer goggles on, didn't see sata.

[Nemeliza]

when the IDE drive is plugged in, does windows boot from the SATA drive ?

[malice19]

when the IDE drive is plugged in, does windows boot from the SATA drive ?

No it will not boot at all, it will not read it. just keeps coming up with OS error.


But i have talked to a few people and was told norton ghost 9 is better for sata drives, But Guess what im getting error with that..

Description: Cannot complete copying of Maxtor (C:\) drive. Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
Error EA3905FE: Cluster not allocated.
Details: 0xEA3905FE

Im not having much luck, But thanks for all Posts from all

[malice19]

Enjoy, tried it again and it did not come up with any errors after close but when i disconnect original HDD
and leave the new one i still get that DAM message again. Error loading operating system

Need Help TBH!

Please help if you have any ideas
Thanks

[Big RICHARD]

It sounds like the master boot record is broken. Don't know how to fix it though. Try google.

[Nox]

fdisk /mbr sorts dodge master boot records. Personally I reckon its missing/wrongly configured SATA drivers or active partitions or summint.

Nox

[directhex]

fdisk /mbr sorts dodge master boot records. Personally I reckon its missing/wrongly configured SATA drivers or active partitions or summint.

Nox

that's the msdos command. it's "fixmbr" on windows nt

[malice19]

Aye thanks 4 the ideas !!!!

Will try that 2 night....

[Atomic]

Ghost V9 is the only version of ghost that has proper SATA support, v8 will do some SATA adaptors but it seems hit&miss if it works or not.

Ive had no problems with Ghost V9 on various onboard/pci SATA adaptors.

[malice19]

Nej , Not having any luck TBH

Mite just give up soon as i have nothing to go on, and just re-install every programme one at a time

Give it 2 more days, if still no joy im guna format the suckers and re-install XP again on the new drive,

Would like to know why all the programs i have tried don’t do want they say on the tin like?