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Can't boot up copied disk

by akaglowboy Jul 30, 2007 3:00PM PDT

Hello,

Used the copy hard drive feature with Norton Ghost 10 to copy my 160gig hard drive to a 500 gig hard drive. These are both SATA drives. I then disconnected the original drive and attempted to boot from the new drive but it fails, giving me this message: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware."

I thought that the copy would have the exact same settings and files as the original disk so I'm not sure what may be the problem. Does anyone have any info on this?

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Ghost failed me too. What I copied it with

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 30, 2007 11:16PM PDT

While I think Acronis is the bomb for this you may want to try a freebie.

Look up http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ and clone the drive with that.

Sorry there is no fancy GUI and you have to type the command in once it boots.

Ghost rests in my closet of horrors.

Bob

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Here is another freebie

by retired Jul 31, 2007 1:09AM PDT

You might want to try.

http://www.xxclone.com/

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IMHO

by Amos16 Jul 31, 2007 5:30PM PDT

the SATA drivers have to be on a floppy, and you have to install them again if you changed your HD. Have you tried that? Please post back when you succeed, because it may interest not only you and me to see what worked. Good luck - Amos.

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