just wanted to share with you a ghost experience.
Recently I had a trouble with chkdsk reporting that my HDD was about to fail. I brought another HDD to make a clone to but had problems.
After a lot of messing around here are the options that worked for me:
Leave the new disk blank & unpartitioned.
Tick the following options when doing the drive copy:
Copy MBR
Skip bad sectors
No checking of source or destination
Turn off smart copy
When smart copy was on, the disk copy failed reporting ‘there are bad sectors’. However turning this off it took 3 hours to copy 200MB of a 1TB disk.
When I tried to boot from the new HDD, I got the message ‘BOOTMRG is missing’. To fix this I did 2 passes of windows 7 recovery and it now boots fine (read this fix elsewhere on the forum). Reading on the forum I think if I had not copied the MBR Norton would have created its own one and it would have worked first time, but I have something that works now.
One other thing, when I tried to restore a disk image Norton reported the new HDD was not valid, the only reason I can thing this was reported was that I had partitioned the disk in one of the previous tests, but Norton should have fully wiped it before starting so I don’t understand why this was an error?
One thing outstanding was Norton had reported some 64 bit drivers could not be copied, but I can’t remember what they was.
HTH