At the first attempt,i followed your suggestion and restored into unallocated space.And when it finished the restore and rebooted it stopped after the bios screen,at a blinking cursor.Possibly because i hadn't checked the "restore MBR" option,because i assumed that since the target computer had only windows and not linux,then there wouldn't be any need to rewrite the MBR as you had suggested.So,i did follow your suggestion.And it didn't work,it got me to the blinking cursor,a message that the restore went ok,but the MBR was either missing or damaged.And at the second attempt,the next day,i formatted the unallocated space to NTFS and checked the partition for errors many times,with gparted before putting the ghost cd in the drive and try again the second restore attempt -that finally worked.Now,how come and the MBR at the target system could be missing,since there were only windows 7 there,that's something i don't have a clue.And the second restore worked,even with the ntfs formatted partition.I was expecting that Ghost would change the partition letter into another letter than C: and therefore that it would get me again to the "windows not genuine" black blank screen.
I was prepared for this and had printed the article from the seven forums,here: http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/75746-copy-windows-not-genuine-after-cloning-d... so as to change the partition letter to C: if i got the "non genuine" blank screen,but fortunately all went well and it booted straight into windows.The only problems i faced were,that i had to reinstall nvidia and realtek's latest drivers and also to reactivate both windows and also office 2010.Which i did,with the genuine serials.So,in conclusion Ghost saved me from the burden of two-three days work,to reinstall enerything from the start.Which i could do,as a last option,but i wanted to avoid it.
Nikos Alexiou
