I have a Toshiba Satellite L355 laptop running Vista Home Premium, 3gb ram, and a 160gb HD. I just bought a 640gb Seagate drive and I'd like to image the old drive to the new one. I'm using Ghost 15 and have done a live update.
I think that it is important to mention that the existing HD has two allocations: One that has no Volume name, is only 1.46gb, no file system, and says "Healthy (EISA Configuration)"...I guess this is the Toshiba recovery partition. The other is the C: drive.
The post that I found the most helpful was this one even though it refers to Ghost 14: http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/System-migration-to-new-hdd-using-Ghost-14/m-p/59500#M7726
Here's how far I get before I get an error:
I attached the new drive to my laptop with a USB 2.0 to SATA adaptor
Using Admin Tools / Disc management from control panel I initialized the new disk - leaving it unallocated
Opened Ghost and selected Copy My Disc from the tools
Checked the show hidden drives box and selected the recovery partition to copy
Setting options Check for errors (both), copy MBR, DO NOT CHECK RESIZE.
When I do this, here is the error that I get:
-Error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of TOSHIBA SYSTEM VOLUME (*:\) drive.
--Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
---Allocated cluster list too long.
---Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
----Allocated cluster list too long.
Please help...this seems like it should be easy. Allen