My old 250 GB SATA hard drive is configured as Dual-Boot with 2 equal partitions: Windows XP on C: (90% used), and Vista on D: (30% used). Default is XP, which was installed before Vista. I am trying to clone this drive to a 500 GB SATA hard drive without success.
I first tried installing Ghost 15 on the XP partition and using “Copy my Hard Drive” to clone both partitions to the new HDD. I had previously created two 250 GB partitions on the new HDD. The result was that not only would the new disk not boot, but my OLD windows XP would no longer start! Instead it froze at the Windows blue screen. That took me 2 stressful days to fix, after finally restoring the XP registry from the c:\windows\repair directory on the old HDD. So I uninstalled Ghost , and resolved NEVER to install it on my computer again, and use the Symantec Recovery CD instead.
Unfortunately the Ghost 15 Recovery CD does not seem to support “Copy my Hard Drive”, or even copy partition-to-partition, as older Ghost 8 did. So how do I proceed? Do I have to leave the new HDD totally unpartitioned and unallocated, as other forum threads have indicated? If so, where can the backup files be stored? Can they be in a third temporary partition on my new HDD? Also, for which partitions should I check “set drive Active, Resize drive to fill unallocated space, copy MBR, etc?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!