I am having problems with cloning my windows XP hard drive to another.
I have created a recovery point on my system for the C drive and then tried to recover this partition to another hard drive.
I am doing this so that I have a duplicate hard drive with the new system with all its drivers and software installed because this is the third hard drive I have installed this year due to virus attacks or failure somewhere... I did have Norton 2012 anti virus installed at the time but still got attacked.
So I have reinstalled the system and all its software and have tried several features.
I have tried the copy disk feature but when I try to boot up off the newly copied drive I get a boot failure.
Seperately - I have tried to install a base system on the new drive and then restore from the restore point off the other drive but it simply hangs at the windows logo when it boots up off the copy.
I used to use the original DOS version of Ghost but it does not work with XP - that's why I decided to buy the latest version, but it's not doing what it says on the tin - for me anyway...
I would like to contact Norton support directly from the UK but it's a bit costly given that I have just paid 40 pounds for a product that simply does not make an iso image of the original drive which can then be transferred to another drive without a lot of hassle.
It takes me around two days to reinstall all the system again as I have a lot of microsoft and adobe products which in themselves take ages to install. - in the past (Win 98 days) I could simply create an ISO which had all the software on it and restore from a second drive. Why isn't it that simple anymore??
I would greatly appreciate any feedback from anyone who can help me resolve the issue of cloning this existing installation of windows to another drive so that I have a ready-to-plug in hard drive in case this one fails yet again. Thank you all in advance.
Terry