a small problem!

Furnace1987

Furnace1987

Furnace1987

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So i bought a new hard drive for my laptop, a 7200 SATA 100GB faster and bigger than the one that it comes with. I use norton Ghost 11 to "upgrade" to a bigger drive. it all goes swimmingly until!

i boot up with the new drive as my master, so far so good boots fine. however when i came to listen to something it says that there is no audio device installed! i checked control panel on sound and devices.... it's grayed out. any ideas how to fix this? i've googled microsofted but still no cure!

i'm on XP SP2 home and dont understand why it wont work!

also when i reboot or turn on, when windows starts i have a generic something or other error! :S.

any ideas VERY welcome!!!

o and the drive i copied it from.... blue screens when i try to boot into it :S loads to logon on almost then dies...

thanks!

Furnace
 
If you just copied it across then you copied any errors you had on that hard drive to the new one :/

Get yourself a legit copy of windows and do a clean install.

After that you should be fine.
 
it is legit my friend ;).

i didnt copy any errors over at all, i only just got it back from being fixed!

norton ghost copies the entire content of one disk to the next... 'upgrading' to your new disk of choice.

problem is the audio isn't working :(
 
check device manager to see if your soundcard is showing up? if it isn't, re-install your soundcard drivers. if it is showing but has a yellow exclamation mark, check the properties to see what the error is. :)
 
marc2003 said:
check device manager to see if your soundcard is showing up? if it isn't, re-install your soundcard drivers. if it is showing but has a yellow exclamation mark, check the properties to see what the error is. :)
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yer i did that.... no exclamation mark and i reinstalled the driver... still no joy! :(!

any other ideas?
 
you say when you put the old drive back in to boot from that, that it doesn't work

something is wrong with it then

-also, acronis true image is a lot better than norton ghost
 
yer the old drive wont boot anymore... it still had the pagefile assigned to it, i've changed that now so it's on the main drive with the system.

i fixed the audio.. or so i thought, i uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it. it worked fine for about 1 half hours then it closed again. i think it might be linked with this Generic Host Process for Win32 error that keeps coming up but i'm not too sure.

i reinstalled the audio and it worked again but i'm not convinced it will keep!

i keep gettting the windows send error report on Generic Host Process for Win32 but i can't find out what is causing it to error. any ideas? i found a windows patch for it but that didnt work.

so far as i know audio is still a problem!
 
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