Copied disk will not boot

I'm trying to use Ghost to migrate to a new, larger drive in my laptop. The old drive is a 60GB PATA and is still showing 100% health. The new one is a 320GB PATA.

 

After installing Ghost, I copied my laptop drive to the 320GB drive, selecting "Copy MBR" and "Make drive active." I've done this once with "Expand partition" on and once with it off.

 

Both times, the copy seems to have gone well. No errrors were reported and I was told, "Success." When I swap the new drive into the laptop, though, it's not recognized and will not boot.  The BIOS skips right over it.

 

My BIOS is fairly new (updated last year).  I'm at a loss here. Nothing in your instructions or documentation discusses this with Ghost 15.

 

I need help here. 

I'm trying to use Ghost to migrate to a new, larger drive in my laptop. The old drive is a 60GB PATA and is still showing 100% health. The new one is a 320GB PATA.

 

After installing Ghost, I copied my laptop drive to the 320GB drive, selecting "Copy MBR" and "Make drive active." I've done this once with "Expand partition" on and once with it off.

 

Both times, the copy seems to have gone well. No errrors were reported and I was told, "Success." When I swap the new drive into the laptop, though, it's not recognized and will not boot.  The BIOS skips right over it.

 

My BIOS is fairly new (updated last year).  I'm at a loss here. Nothing in your instructions or documentation discusses this with Ghost 15.

 

I need help here. 

I found the problem. The disk was copied correctly, but for unknown reasons, Ghost refuses to set the boot flag on the new drive's partition.  I went in with Parted Magic (a free tool), turned on the boot flag, and that was all it took.

 

Kind of a shame. I spent $69 on Ghost because I didn't want to rely on freeware, and in the end, freeware rescued me from Ghost. Lesson learned.

 


kd4dcy wrote:

 

Both times, the copy seems to have gone well. No errrors were reported and I was told, "Success." When I swap the new drive into the laptop, though, it's not recognized and will not boot.  The BIOS skips right over it.


 

kd4dcy,

Good news that you have resolved the issue. Out of interest, did you see an error after powering on the computer? Was the HD recognized in the BIOS? What do you mean by "The BIOS skips right over it.".

 

Thanks.