problems cloning my hd with ghost 9.0

[jcastyo]

I am having problems cloning my Quantom 12GB hd to a Maxtor 30GB hd. I go into Ghost and select the "Copy One Drive to Another" option and clones "successfully". When I try to boot to the new hd, it gives me "NTLDR is missing". I have tried all of the recommendations from other posts with no success. When I boot to the Quantom hd, it loads winxp just fine.

Has anyone successfully cloned their drives and if so what were the steps you took, from start to finish?

I thought it would be a lot easier to clone a drive

I have been fighting with this task all week

Oh yeah, the OS is winxp home sp2

JC

[EzyStvy]

When the cloning process is done, are you unhooking the new drive BEFORE doing any reboots?

[tempus]

Originally Posted by jcastyo I am having problems cloning my Quantom 12GB hd to a Maxtor 30GB hd. I go into Ghost and select the "Copy One Drive to Another" option and clones "successfully". When I try to boot to the new hd, it gives me "NTLDR is missing". I have tried all of the recommendations from other posts with no success. When I boot to the Quantom hd, it loads winxp just fine. Has anyone successfully cloned their drives and if so what were the steps you took, from start to finish? I thought it would be a lot easier to clone a drive I have been fighting with this task all week Oh yeah, the OS is winxp home sp2 JC

did you make the new drive boot partition active?
Is the new drive set to master?
do you have a windows xp OS disk?

[jcastyo]

When the cloning process is done, are you unhooking the new drive BEFORE doing any reboots?

No, I did not unhook the new drive before any reboots. Why would it need to be unhooked before restarting?

did you make the new drive boot partition active?

if you mean checking the option of "Set drive active(for OS starting)" - YES

Is the new drive set to master?

YES

do you have a windows xp OS disk?

YES

[TwoRails]

Did you verify the clone?

[jcastyo]

Did you verify the clone?

what do you mean verify the clone? Check and see if there are files on the clone?

Here are the options given when cloning a drive with Ghost.

Options

Did I select

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- Check source for file system errors

YES

- Check destination for file system errors

YES

- Resize drive to fill unallocated space

YES

- Set drive active( for starting OS)

YES

- Disable SmartSector copying

YES

- Ignore bad sectors during copy

YES

- Destination partition type (primary/logical)

PRIMARY

- Drive letter

NONE

- Copy MBR

YES

Sorry if I used the term "NEW", it is not a new drive, I had the MAXTOR30 in my main system, but upgraded to a SATA drive. I then took my MAXTOR30 and am trying to use it in the other system that has the QUANTOM12. The MAXTOR30 did have info on it so I deleted the partitions on it using WinXP CD and created just one partition. I have tried to clone the drive with the drive being formatted and not formatted. I then load WinXp with QUANTUM12 and start Norton Ghost and proceed with the cloning with the options stated above. After all done I restart and change settings on BIOS to start with MAXTOR30. I want to keep M30 as master and Q12 as slave for data.

If I did something wrong here please let me know.

I will try again and see what happens?

JC

[jcastyo]

I tried again and got the same problem "NTLDR is missing". One thing I notice is that there are 3 partitions on the MAXTOR30:

1 primary which I cloned from the QUANTOM12 - 24304MB
1 logical - 4998MB
1 primary - 7MB(unallocated)

I thought there was only supposed to be one primary partition on a hard drive, unless it was dual boot?

If this is what is causing the error how do I get rid of the 7MB partition

[jcastyo]

I am looking at the info of my SATA HD and it has 1 primary + 2 logical partitions.

JC

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by jcastyo what do you mean verify the clone? ... - Ignore bad sectors during copy YES ...

I haven't used that version, jc, but in prior versions, while you are still in the DOS mode, there is an option to "Check" either the drive clone or image copy. (I know, I said "verify" earlier...) See screen shot below.

Also, I don't think I'd "Ignore bad sectors"... As mentioned, I haven't used this version so I don't know the full implications, but ignoring bad sectors does not sound like a good idea.

(sorry for the poor pic quality, but it's a shot of the monitor...)

[glc]

I would zero fill the Maxtor with Powermax or Maxblast and do the clone again. You can even use Maxblast to do the clone instead of Ghost.

[jcastyo]

Maxblast was the first thing I tried to clone my drives, but got the same results. I must be missing something. I'll keep trying and let you all know.

thanks for all the help,
jc

[jcastyo]

I think I will zero fill the drive and clone and see what happens

jc

[jcastyo]

Well I just spent 4+ hours zeroing and cloning the drive and with no success. With all this time trying to clone I should have just installed windows xp and all the drivers, programs, etc. Ghost is such a waste of money. And they charge $29.99 for tech support .

jc