Trouble with Norton Ghost

[Panama Red]

I know I'm doing something wrong, but need some help figuring it out. Trying to Ghost my 98se from one hdd to another. I'm using an older version of Norton Ghost. I've been able to Write the Image from Disk and Read the Image to Disk, but the new hdd won't boot. I get a message "Press A key to reboot". What am I missing here?

[bailey]

I am betting that you did not get all the system and hidden files copied, or possibly the new drive was not formated the same ? maybe ?

[Panama Red]

You may be right, bailey, but I tried to create both environments to be the same. I reformatted and partitioned the new drive just like the old one using Partition Magic. Maybe I'll reformat again and try writing the Ghost one more time, unless somebody else has an idea.

[andyms18a]

is the new drive set as active if not it wont boot you nead to remove the old drive boot with a win98 floppy and run fdisk deleate the partition then make a new one and set it to active format it then put the old drive back and run ghost when ghost is done remove the old drive boot with your win98 floppy and type fdisk/mbr then see if it boots

[Panama Red]

Andy, you are right about the "set drive to active" problem. Just came back from solving the problem to post my findings and discovered your suggestion. Since I was able to make it work, I'll tell you how. I reopened Partition Magic and noticed my newly installed 98se boot partition was NOT set to Active. Used PM to do just that and rebooted to the new drive. Voila! it worked!! Got an error message a couple times about registry problem, but I removed the yellow question marked items from Device Manager and that problem went away too. Think that's the USB 2.0 that 98 doesn't recognize. Ran the 98 registry checker and it came up ok and I ran RegHealer too. It didn't find any errors either. Looks like I'm in business. Now I can use this 80Gb WD jb hdd in my new build!