I have created Ghost 15 (15.0.1.36526) images (one System Reserved, one C:\ drive) from a 60GB IDE drive using the procedure provided by redk9258 at:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-15-on-Windows-7-to-clone-and-replace-Boot-Drive/td-p/355858
I am able to restore those images onto a 80GB IDE drive and it boots fine, although I get the "Windows Boot Manager" screen with "Windows 7" and "Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008/Windows 7" boot options, and have to use msconfig to remove the bogus boot option.
Now, I have attempted to restore the SAME image onto a 160GB SATA 2 drive, and it will not boot Win7. It stops in the Windows Boot Manager screen with:
"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the case."...
"Status 0xc0000225" ...
"The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible."
The exact screen is listed here: http://kb.acronis.com/content/6501
Is this a bug in Ghost 15? The Ghost 15 software on my PC is up-to-date (per Live Update).
Is there ANY way I can get this transfer to work, or is Ghost just incapable of transferring an image to a disk that is a different architecture?
The goal here is to get a "complete" image of Win 7 and all my programs and restore that to a new SATA 3 SSD drive I plan to use for my boot/OS/system drive, so that I don't have to install directly to the SSD drive and have all the reads/writes that are done during an install of the OS and programs. Now I have this fear that it won't work because of the issue I have encountered!
My install is configured so that I have "\Users" on the D: drive, which is a 1TB SATA 3 drive, that will reduce the number of writes to the SSD boot/OS/ystem drive.