Restored ghost file, Windows freezes at welcome screen [gig hd] [file windows]
Q: OK, I pulled 40 Gig HD and created ghost file from my desktop computer. I then took a new 120gig HD and restored the image to the HD and put the HD back into the laptop. when I boot freezes at the Windows Welcome screen where you would select users. wtf?
things note:
yes I have remade the partition active
i the image twice and tried to restore 3 times the same . results
it happens in safe mode and check well
tried disk
does anyone have any idea how this work or suggestions on what to try next. Im using Norton Ghost 8.0. thanks
Re:will try that guy, right now im putting in new HD completely wiped and restoring the ghost file off an external usb HD. if that doesn't work will go your route.
yeah i have no idea how to change the drive letter to C:
Re:put in the old drive and use the bois to tell it to boot off the new drive and see how far you get? if it bots normal thats your issue then change the drive letter I forget google it. I had this issue with ghost once it booted fine but was run running windows from the F but using documents and settings from the old C drive. or boot into the recoveryconsole with only your ghost disk and see what letter it is? that might tell you if thats your problrem not sure though.
Re:just as an update, im going to take the original hard drive and do a diagnostic startup. hopefully by ghosting windows in diag startup with nothing running will allow me to get the new HD into windows so i can change the drive letter. hopefully this will work
Re:guy, i did notice that the laptop recognizes drive as H and i thought it was a c: issue. however i cannot get the drive assigned to c: any ideas?
Re:Acronis Trueimage has always worked for me better than Ghost.
guy
Re:I'll bet that its a C:/ D:/ issue and you drive may no be label C: late in the boot process its looking for something on C but its not there.
but I could be wrong. put in the old drive and use the bois to tell it to boot off the new drive and see how far you get?
Re:Did you let Ghost 8.0 create the partition or did you manually created the partition THEN restore the image on the new hard drive??? I got mine to work by deleting ALL partitions on the new hard drive (so that it's completely unallocated), then startup Ghost, point to the image, and let it automatically create the paritions and everything else. Another solution for me was:
1. Create all the necessary partitions necessary using Partition Magic (DO NOT FORMAT). Leave the new parition UNFORMATTED.
2. Now restore the image to the FIRST partition.
Let us know.
Re:yeah i realised it was ghost 9.0
im pretty sure they are both NTFS however i didn't check. might be something there
edit*ive already successfully done this once
Re:Firrst thing is are both the original and imaged drives the same Format ? ? NTFS or FAT32
If not, it might not work … also for Ghost to work with NTFS volumes, you need at least the
version of Ghost that came with Systemworks 2003 or a later version. Earlier ones, do
not support NTFS
Re:please someone i need this bad. can you recommend better imaging/ghosting utility?
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