I'm replacing my 250GB disk with a 500 GB one on my desktop running Vista. Using Norton Ghost 15 I tried the following steps to clone the disk:
1. Connected the new disk and using Disk Management initialized and formated it - Right-click on the "Unallocated" space and click "New Simple Volume....". Then in the "New Simple Volume Wizard" window clicled the "Next" button in the "Specify Volume Size" window to accept the default volume size which is the entire drive. Selected the "Next" button in the "Assign Drive Letter or Path" window to select the default drive letter, which was marked as "F"
2. In Ghost, used Copy my Drive. Slected the source drive, checked the Show Hidden Drives box on the top right corner. Selected the destination drive. Selected "Set drive active (for booting OS)" check box in the "Advanced Options" window, and also the "Copy MBR" check box. Then clicked Finish
3. When the process was finished, shutdown the computer, unplugged the power and SATA cables from both the drives and plugged the cables from the old drive to the new drive.
4. When I start the computer, it goes through the Vista startup screen and gets to the Log In screen. Then it shows Preparing your desktop on the screen. After that I get a light blue screen and nothing happens.
The old disk has a recovery image partition thaI I did not copy. And I realized that I did not select Expand Drive to fill Unalloacted space option. Also, I formatted the drive before initiating the clone.
Would appreciate how I can go about fixing this.
Thanks