Hey guys,
I've been trying for about a week now to replace my existing hard drive with a new, larger hard drive. I've had multiple Ghost fails, and now multiple Windows Backup and Restore fails.
Note: I verified, and I'm using Service Pack 1 on Ghost 15 (ran LiveUpdate too, and it said it was most recent)
I did some searching, and on this last round, followed Brian's instructions from here:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-options-for-recovery/td-p/218202
Which were very similar to the detailed instructions I found here (higlighted in green, post by redk9258):
http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-on-Windows-7-to-clone-and-replace-Boot...
That is, I backed up my drive using Ghost.
- I looked for recovery points by Filename.
- I selected the System Reserved v2i file
- I used edit, and selected the new hard drive (which was unallocated)
Note: It came up automatically having 100MB partition; so I chose Delete Drive, and selected the complete, empty drive
- I set the settings like Brian's post had: Primary, Check for file system errors, Set drive active, restore orig disk sig, restore master boot record.
- Clicked OK, then Add, so I could add the Local C Drive v2i file
- I again used edit, and selected the new hard drive:
Note: It came up automatically having 465GB partition (the old drive size); so I chose delete drive, and selected the complete, empty drive.
I then set the settings like Brian's post had, but added the resize: Resize Drive (set to max), Primary Partition, Check file systems for errors.
Clicked OK, Clicked Next, and Finish. It went through the restore, and it said it restored successfully. I was optimistic.
I then rebooted, and low and behold, Windows started. I made it into Windows, and the only thing I saw was an error saying that the device driver for my hard drive failed (Seagate Momentus 750GB if that matters.) So I went into device manager, clicked on update driver, did automatic update, it found the driver (from Microsoft corporation), and said it needed to restart to finish updating the driver.
When it went to update, instead of loading windows, it went into the system recovery mode; and said that:
Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically. Looking at the details, it gave:
Problem Signature:
Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Event 1: 7.1.7600.16385
Event 2: 7.1.7600.16385
Event 3: Unknown
Event 4: 137
Event 5: AutoFailover
Event 6: 1
Event 7: MissingOsLoader
etc
I did some searching, and found some posts (no longer have links) that said it could take multiple restarts for the automatic recovery to fix. So, I tried about five times now, and I keep getting that same error.
So, I searched for MissingOsLoader, and found an article saying someone fixed thier similar issue by rebuilding using command prompt and bootrec (again, can't re-find the link), but it told me to:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
I did all these commands successfully, and then it said to re-run the startup repair; that it should fail one more time, then it should pass successfully. I tried running the startup repair three more times, and always get the same error.
I've found other articles on how to fix startup issues, but I'm getting in over my head. Have you guys seen this issue before, and how can I fix it?
(I echo the thoughts of many other people. Why can't upgrading a hard drive just be more simple. I've killed over 40 hours on this already, and still don't have a working system yet. /end_of_rant)
Thanks for any help,
A.J.
