In preparation for replacing the first HDD (300GB), in a two drive developer's laptop, the first drive with four(4) partitions was backed up, each partition individually, with a Ghost 15 program.
Next, the new and larger HDD (500GB) was partitioned with four NTFS partions, same as in the old, execpt that now each partition is larger -- after which the existing four partitions were copied to the new drive partitions.
Now, replacing the old with the new HDD -- none of the partitions/OSs worked. After using an older SRD disk and MS Installation Disk Repair, I'm now able to boot and operate the Win7 on the first partition. However,
P2:WS2008,
P3:Vista and
P3:WS2008
would start but after login -- the OSs hang up and indicate that the copy is illegal (right bottom corner).
Further investigation (using Task Mgr to open CMD console) showed that each OS appeared to be installed on the correct partition -- yet adopted the drive letter -- one that is different than the one it used to have on the old HD -- and different than the one I specified during the restore.
NOTE: The problem is recognized by MS for older OSs (I tried it -- it does not work for the W7/WS08; the regedit does not start); MS knowledge base shows the following:
How to restore the system/boot drive letter in windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/KB/223188
My problem seem to be similar and is within Ghost domain of responsibilty. Would you help please?
Thanks.