" when I put the newly cloned 60Gb into my laptop and bootup, "
Bingo. That may not work UNLESS the USB drive enclosure puts the data in the same sectors that the PC would. The USB enclosure doens't have to and as such you are expecting something to work... that shouldn't.
There is no cure for this one!
Bob
Hi,
I have a 40Gb laptop with one partition formatted to NTFS format. I have a 60Gb hard disk 7200rpm which I've put in to an external USB 2.5 inch enclosure. If I attach the enclosure to the laptop I can see it in Windows and I've initialized it
I ran Norton Ghost 9 to clone the 40Gb onto the 60Gb. I attached back the 60Gb into the enclosure just to see if at least it has copied the files across. I can see in Windows XP, that the files have been copied across
However when I put the newly cloned 60Gb into my laptop and bootup, it gets to the Windows screen, but it doesn't go any further into Windows itself i.e it hangs. I don't know why it can't progress further and boot directly into Windows
I checked Norton Ghost 9 and I selected Copy Drive for C to E and the options I chose were Chreck source for errors, Check destination for errors, Set drive active for booting OS, Disable smart sector copying, Ignore bad sectors during copy and Copy MBR
I don't know if changing any of the settings has much of an effect. I tried without Copy MBR and without set drive active and it made no difference
I also tried using DriveImage 7 (which I guess is the old Norton Ghost 9) and that too exhibits a similar problem
I've already tried the Symantec website and there were no updates to version 9 and no other information I could find to resolve my issue
Any help appreciated
Thanks
Richard

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