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"john" <SpamMe@senseless.com> wrote in message
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> Having suffered 3 HDD failures, I have cloned my laptop hard drive (XP
> Home edition) with Norton Ghost 9.0. I have copied the MBR as well and
> made it active.
> Replaced the laptop drive with the cloned drive, but it only boots up to
> the XP light blue screen and stalls
>
> Any ideas?
John:
Assuming we're not dealing here with defective hardware/software, there's no
reason you cannot create a perfectly good clone of your working HD using
Ghost 9.0.
We'll assume the following...
1. Your source disk is not defective and that there's no corruption of your
OS system files, i.e., you can boot to a Desktop with no problem(s).
2. The destination disk is similarly not defective.
3. The cloning process seemed to go OK with no error or strange messages
along the way.
4. Following the cloning process you correctly connected/configured the
cloned drive. And you're sure about that.
I assume you're correctly followed Ghost's instructions in cloning your
drive. What makes me uneasy is your statement that "I have copied the MBR as
well...". When you use a disk imaging program such as Ghost to clone a
drive, you do *not* *copy* the MBR. A clone is a clone is a clone.
So re:clone your drive. Don't mess with the "MBR" or anything else. Make
sure you install it correctly in your laptop. BTW, was your destination
drive in a USB/Firewire external HD enclosure during the cloning process?
What was your setup?
Anna