error cloning hard drives

pappas215

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Hello,

I am trying to clone any xp install drive with norton ghost 14 to a new bigger drive - both are NTFS. Yet for some reason when I start to run the program I get an error saying the drive cannot be copied :


-Error EC8F17B3: Cannot complete copying of (C:\) drive.
--Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
---No recognizable NTFS file system found.
---Cannot copy source drive to destination location.
----No recognizable NTFS file system found.

Any ideas? I have never used ghost before so I am not sure if I am missing something
 

rockbyter

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How do you have the drives hooked up physically? If you have the space, i would take a full snapshot of the drive, then restore it instead of straight shot start to finish.
 

pappas215

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I have them on the same ide channel - master/slave.

this is an older desktop, p4 and the drive with the xp install is only 40 gig - trying to move everything over to a new larger drive.