Norton Ghost 15 clone drive will not boot

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I am attempting to make a bootable clone.  The source drive and target drive are identical 1TB drives.  The source drive is a Windows XP Pro OS which is attached to a Windows Server 2008 domain.  When I clone the drive I select 'Make drive bootable' and 'Copy MBR'.  The target drive will boot to the Ctrl-Alt-Del login screen.  When the username and password are entered, the system begins loading the personal settings and then reverts to the Ctrl-Alt-Del login screen.  I've tried making the clone from having the computer attached to the domain and from the local machine.  Any help is appreciated.

 

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Sorry,  I mistook this post for mine.

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I am attempting to make a bootable clone.  The source drive and target drive are identical 1TB drives.  The source drive is a Windows XP Pro OS which is attached to a Windows Server 2008 domain.  When I clone the drive I select 'Make drive bootable' and 'Copy MBR'.  The target drive will boot to the Ctrl-Alt-Del login screen.  When the username and password are entered, the system begins loading the personal settings and then reverts to the Ctrl-Alt-Del login screen.  I've tried making the clone from having the computer attached to the domain and from the local machine.  Any help is appreciated.

 

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Getting hung up at the login screen means windows no longer has the correct drive letter (usually C).

You must have prepared the desitation drive with a partition and incorrect letter.

 

The clone needs to be done into unallocated space for it to work.

Does the original drive still boot?

Is all the data small enough that you can easily do it again or do you want to try to fix the clone?

 

Dave

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The original drive will still boot.  I have not assigned a drive letter to the target (Ghost sees it as E:\ when I run the software.)  When and how do I change the target drive letter to C:| - before or after the clone?

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If Ghost sees the destination drive as E then windows has assigned it a drive letter.

The copy drive needs to be done into unallocated space, if there is no partitions defined there will be no drive letters.

 

You may be able to fix the cloned drive quickly since it is XP.

Put that drive in all by it'self and boot it with this:

http://sdrv.ms/RIjpRW

 

Thats a windows 98 boot disk I made into an ISO.

Boot the system, choose "Run from CD", then choose "Load without CD-Rom Drivers"

When you get to the A prompt type:

fdisk /mbr

Push enter, you won't see much happening. Remove the disc and reboot the system using CTRL-ALT-Delete

That should force XP to reassign the drive letters and XP should become C again.

 

If that doesn't work you will need to install both drives again, boot to the old drive with the destination drive as a slave or second hard drive.  Delete all partitions on the destination drive and do the copy drive again into unallocated space.

After the copy is done you must not boot with both drives attached.  Shut down the system and remove the old drive and install the new drive as primary or on the first SATA connection.

Boot the new drive by it'self and it should go right into windows.

 

Dave