norton ghost 9 help needed

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hi, been having problems with my hard disc (with xp on it) so i'm RMAing it and copying it to another older HD so i can boot with it (the old one works but is slow - long story).

so, i have norton ghost 9 and tried a simple drive copy, making the new drive bootable, but the new drive boots and then hangs at the windows xp blue welcome screen and doesn't go any further. - i tried booting from the ghost cd but it doesn't boot (i thought it was supposed to do this??).
i have an image of the drive to copy.

i've never had to use ghost before so any advice from experienced users would be welcome

thanks
 
same machine.

i think i've just done it - instead of using the drive copy i used restore image and restored an image of the drive i wanted to copy to the drive i copied to (the one that didn't boot xp last time)
unplugged the old drive and now i'm in windows on the new drive.

i would still like to know why the drive copy didn't work though.

and how i'm supposed to restore a drive if windows fails completely since i can't boot with the norton cd?? am i missing something here??

cheers
 
drive copy didnt work because norton ghost is crap, i just had exactly the same issue, i went and bought acronis true image and used that to copy my drive to the new drive, XP worked and all is well. ghost = monkey poo.
 
Ghost is an excellent and well proven piece of software.
Never failed me. Must be the user !
 
ns400r said:
Ghost is an excellent and well proven piece of software.
Never failed me. Must be the user !
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3 different drive scenarios, 2 different people, and a thread of people in the hard drive section saying how crap it is does not make it the user, next time dont be so damn cheeky.
 
locutus12 said:
3 different drive scenarios, 2 different people, and a thread of people in the hard drive section saying how crap it is does not make it the user, next time dont be so damn cheeky.
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I've been using it for 5 years without problems too..
 
aardvark said:
so, i have norton ghost 9 and tried a simple drive copy, making the new drive bootable, but the new drive boots and then hangs at the windows xp blue welcome screen and doesn't go any further. - i tried booting from the ghost cd but it doesn't boot (i thought it was supposed to do this??).
i have an image of the drive to copy.

i've never had to use ghost before so any advice from experienced users would be welcome

thanks
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Nortons Ghost 9 is a rebadge of Powerquests Drive Image(V2i). Its an old program which was quite advanced when it came out some years back.
You should be able to boot from the CD, its slow to get to the recovery environment so be patient. If its just not attempting to boot from CD then check the boot sequence in the BIOS and make sure the CD rom is before the hard drive. I doubt if it would work with new raid cards etc. as Nortons seem to have done nothing useful to it since taking the software over.
 
hes getting stuck at the windows logon screen after he has rebuilt his drive.

i copied from an IDE to an IDE drive and got the same thing, again i had to copy IDE to SATA and again norton shows how useless it is again by giving me the same error ...

acronis... first time, and its working.
 
well, i least i did get it working using the restore drive image option - although why they put in the drive copy feature when it doesn't work is pointless.
i think i've solved my non-booting disc problem aswell - i was being stupid.

but ghost is hardly the hassle free program i thought it was - acronis for me from now on.
 
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