Can't boot my cloned hard disk

I'm trying to move to a bigger, faster hard disk for my C Drive. I've
made an image of the old C Drive with Norton Ghost 9.0.2.3981, and
then I've copied that image to a brand new disk. The files are all on
the new disk OK, but it won't boot.
What do I have to do to the new disk to make it so the computer boots
it when I switch it on? I expect it's something to do with the Master
Boot Record, but I'm not entirely sure what to do, and when. Is there
a switch in Ghost to make the disk bootable? Or do I use fdisk or
something? And if I do use fdisk, what is the command line switch and
do I do it before or after copying the image to the disk?
It's all very unclear to me what steps I need to take, and I would
appreciate any advice you can give me.

thanks

john

John Davidson wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to move to a bigger, faster hard disk for my C Drive. I've
> made an image of the old C Drive with Norton Ghost 9.0.2.3981, and
> then I've copied that image to a brand new disk. The files are all on
> the new disk OK, but it won't boot.
> What do I have to do to the new disk to make it so the computer boots
> it when I switch it on? I expect it's something to do with the Master
> Boot Record, but I'm not entirely sure what to do, and when. Is there
> a switch in Ghost to make the disk bootable? Or do I use fdisk or
> something? And if I do use fdisk, what is the command line switch and
> do I do it before or after copying the image to the disk?
> It's all very unclear to me what steps I need to take, and I would
> appreciate any advice you can give me.[/color]


Run fdisk and verify that the boot partition is active.

Mistoffolees wrote:[color=blue]
> Run fdisk and verify that the boot partition is active.[/color]

I think also, fdisk /mbr will write a master boot record to the drive,
if there isn't one already. (It will also clobber any linux boot loader
or boot menu or similar that was installed on that drive!)

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On 2 Apr 2005 18:48:26 -0800, [email]jtdavidson@gmail.com[/email] (John Davidson)
wrote:
[color=blue]
>I'm trying to move to a bigger, faster hard disk for my C Drive. I've
>made an image of the old C Drive with Norton Ghost 9.0.2.3981, and
>then I've copied that image to a brand new disk. The files are all on
>the new disk OK, but it won't boot.
>What do I have to do to the new disk to make it so the computer boots
>it when I switch it on? I expect it's something to do with the Master
>Boot Record, but I'm not entirely sure what to do, and when.[/color]

use MBRwork program & save MBR from older disk & than later
mount/restore it on new one (U need Dos boot FD for operation).
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John Davidson wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm trying to move to a bigger, faster hard disk for my C Drive. I've
> made an image of the old C Drive with Norton Ghost 9.0.2.3981, and
> then I've copied that image to a brand new disk. The files are all on
> the new disk OK, but it won't boot.
> What do I have to do to the new disk to make it so the computer boots
> it when I switch it on? I expect it's something to do with the Master
> Boot Record, but I'm not entirely sure what to do, and when. Is there
> a switch in Ghost to make the disk bootable? Or do I use fdisk or
> something? And if I do use fdisk, what is the command line switch and
> do I do it before or after copying the image to the disk?
> It's all very unclear to me what steps I need to take, and I would
> appreciate any advice you can give me.
>
> thanks
>
> john[/color]

Try this command

[url]http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx[/url]

You will need to be in recovery, which you get from booting form your
windows XP CD. Another thing to watch out for is to make sure your new
drive/partition is being recognized as the same letter the old drive
partition was i.e. old drive was C: so the new drive needs to be C: in my
experience windows XP will not boot if you move it to drive D: when it was
originally on C: this is because of anti-piracy i think. If the problem is
only with the MBR then the above command should work.

Dan
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Twisted One wrote:[color=blue]
> Mistoffolees wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Run fdisk and verify that the boot partition is active.[/color]
>
>
> I think also, fdisk /mbr will write a master boot record to the drive,
> if there isn't one already. (It will also clobber any linux boot loader
> or boot menu or similar that was installed on that drive!)
>[/color]

That is correct...fdisk /mbr will write a new master boot
record. However, running fdisk without any toggles should
bring up a set of options, including the ability to view
the status of a HD partition.

dan <cheboyganmanomitthispart@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<115004gnrcqdm9f@corp.supernews.com>...[color=blue]
> John Davidson wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I'm trying to move to a bigger, faster hard disk for my C Drive. I've
> > made an image of the old C Drive with Norton Ghost 9.0.2.3981, and
> > then I've copied that image to a brand new disk. The files are all on
> > the new disk OK, but it won't boot.
> > What do I have to do to the new disk to make it so the computer boots
> > it when I switch it on? I expect it's something to do with the Master
> > Boot Record, but I'm not entirely sure what to do, and when. Is there
> > a switch in Ghost to make the disk bootable? Or do I use fdisk or
> > something? And if I do use fdisk, what is the command line switch and
> > do I do it before or after copying the image to the disk?
> > It's all very unclear to me what steps I need to take, and I would
> > appreciate any advice you can give me.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > john[/color]
>
> Try this command
>
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx[/url]
>
> You will need to be in recovery, which you get from booting form your
> windows XP CD. Another thing to watch out for is to make sure your new
> drive/partition is being recognized as the same letter the old drive
> partition was i.e. old drive was C: so the new drive needs to be C: in my
> experience windows XP will not boot if you move it to drive D: when it was
> originally on C: this is because of anti-piracy i think. If the problem is
> only with the MBR then the above command should work.
>
> Dan[/color]
Thanks Dan. I tried what everyone said and it's still not booting. The
new drive is a serial ata, whereas the old drive was on a regular IDE
drive. So I expect it likely does have a different drive name from C:.
How do I change it to be the C: drive?

John

John Davidson wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Thanks Dan. I tried what everyone said and it's still not booting. The
> new drive is a serial ata, whereas the old drive was on a regular IDE
> drive. So I expect it likely does have a different drive name from C:.
> How do I change it to be the C: drive?
>[/color]

Is this S-ATA drive designated the boot drive in the
bios setup?