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There are a couple of ways of trying to do this. The Copy Disk Wizard certainly is one of them. The intent for this wizard is to replace one drive with another. However, I notice in your situation you have an external drive. When that is available it can be easier to simply plug the new hard drive in, in the place of the existing drive | boot the Norton Ghost CD | then restore your last backup onto the new drive. And, as you already know, you have to restore the MBR and set the partition active. In this scenario you will find that you can also resize your to use all the available space on the new drive.
Now, would you like to try this method or would you like to work through the Copy Drive Wizard?
I had thought of that, unfortunately the other drive is not big enough to backup the whole C: drive (c: drive is 320GB, external drive is only 100GB)
I have actually got a bit further tonight, I had noticed that previously in the Ghost screen the cloned drive just showed up as drive g:, the last cloning I did (didnt do anything different) showed a message similar to "g: Operation Successful".
Now the drive boots and I get to the blue logon screen but my old logon is not displayed. I have looked into this problem and from what I read it seems that XP isnt calling the new drive the C: drive and thus cant find logon info etc, and somehow I need to delete the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices
Which should set the new drive as the c: drive, I have not worked out how to do this yet.
Any suggestions?
Thank-you for your response.
Ok, I have managed to get the cloned disk up and running from the login screen that had no login 
What I had to do was to fool the boot process into believing I had inserted a totally new HD, this was achieved by booting from a Win98 boot CD into the DOS command prompt and performing a "fdisk /MBR" this will overwrite the MBR DiskID with 00's which will then cause XP to treat it as a new drive, i.e. C:\. (Note that not all DOS versions of fdisk will overwrite ALL the MBR, for example using the Win95 boot CD and its fdisk will not overwrite the DiskID section of the MBR).
Once I had booted into XP (I dont think it was totally necessary, but I did it anyway) I went and deleted the MountedDevices registry key.
You've hit on one method for doing this (cloning your system drive). For further discussion you might see:
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1168536167
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=ghost9_10;action=display;num=1168103705
And for a general overview:
Bill Zigrang
Well,I'm sitting here wiping my cloned hard drive clean again for the second time. I have attempted to clone my existing hard drive without much success. Maybe some one can tell me straight out, does Norton ghost 14.0 clone hard drives? If not then ok....I can stop trying.
If it does, then please tell me were I'm going wrong. I open the program, go to the advance tab and select the copy drive option. It asks me what additional tasks to perform and I select all available selections ( there are 5-check source for file sys errors, check destination for file sys errors, set drive active,ingore bad sectors. copy MBR) I let the program run to completion. I remove the existing hard drive and attempt to boot from the newly cloned drive. It will boot all the way to the blue windows screen and just stop....What am I missing here?
Does 14.0 make fully functional clones, please tell me how.
Wow, I does work! I followed the same exacts steps, except I made sure the new disk was UNALLOCATED -----
makes all the difference in the world. Now for another newbie question, can I leave this newly cloned hard drive in the computer
along with the original hard drive and run the daily ( and or weekly) back ups on it, or do I need to take it out and put in a clean hard drive for the back up maintenance duties?
You should if you wish be able to leave it in to do the backups etc But be careful when you reboot that you boot from the right disk :)
What I did was clone my drive onto the 2nd disk etc then wipe the original and use it from blank as a backup, since it was smaller than the drive I cloned it to.
Glad my previous posts helped....