I'm trying to copy my Windows 7 system disk to a new 1TB disk. Since the first version of Ghost I've used it to copy my system disk to a new disk about once a year and then put the old disk away as an emergency backup. This has been successful through Ghost 10 and Windows XP. Last year I moved to Windows 7 Pro and Ghost 15, and it's time to take my yearly backup. Except I can't get the durned thing to work. I follow the procedure in this forum:
Destination drive is of the same size and is unallocated space.
Copy SRP from C to unallocated space
Check source and destination for errors
Set drive active
Designate partition type Primary partition
Drive letter is "None"
Copy MBR
All other options unchecked.
This succeeds
Copy Win 7 partition from C to remaining unallocated space
Check source and destination for errors
Designate partition type Primary Partition
Set drive letter to "none"
All other options unchecked.
This always fails with:
-Error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of (C:\) drive.
--Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
---At end of something.
---Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
----At end of something.
(UMI:V-0-3215-6067)
I've looked up this error on the forums and the solution seems to be to delete existing partitions. I start with unallocated space on the entire drive. The first copy creates a 100 MB partition and the rest shows as unallocated space.
Any ideas?