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Basically I work for a company, and in the near future I am going to need to start using norton ghost 9.0 for several different things. The main problem I am having right now is the Drive Copy feature. This is the system I am running to test the program: Dell G1 450 mhz 256 Ram Windows XP pro, Service pack one (it is what my company uses right now) 4 GB hd Basically my test scenario is this. I am trying to copy all of the data from the 4 Gig HDD to a 20 Gig HDD, that has been freshly formatted, the drive has been set to active and appears to be "Healthy" in the disk manager. Initially what I have done is this. I have set my 4 gig hdd to Master, and the 20 gig to Slave. And in bios, both are appearing to register correctly. I get norton ghost 9.0 installed with no problems and the program is running as intended from as far as I can see. I have seen suggestions where it is a good idea to turn system restore off on windows xp Pro, so that is off. I select to Copy drive C(4 gig drive), to Destination Drive D (20 gig drive) I enable all of the Features, I disable smart sector copying, and also for some reason it will not let me click the 'resize drives to fill unallocated space' option for some reason. The drive copy seems to work as it should. And when it is done all of the files are over on the new drive and it is browsable. I take the drive out, change the new 20 gig to master, Ive acctually done this 2 ways. #1 I have put it on cable select with no other drives, and #2 I have set it to master with no other drives, and #3 i have set it to Master with a slave. When i boot the PC up all I get is a flashing dos style cursor just after the Dell bios (screen where it says press f2 to enter set up) splash screen, No windows loading screens or anything. Anyone know what could be causing this?

acctually when I bought ghost, it was in a 2 box set that included norton partition magic 8.0. I will work with it a little bit more I have been using both the programs Now that I think about it, I was using ghost 2003 the other day because I was tired of messing with 9.0 and not getting the results I wanted. With ghost 2003 I had pretty much the same problem as the demo version of Casper. The program worked great, windows would boot up. My problem is that after I copied the drive, a 20 gig drive would now have a partition that is 4 gigs (the same amount as the original hard drive), and 16 gigs of free unpartitioned space. I wonder if PM 8.0 would be able to merge the 2 partitions together. That sounds like it could work. I did try to merge the 2 partitions with Casper but it didnt work, but it was also a demo. I bet with a full version of a programl ike ghost 2k3 it would work

I did try fixmbr before I left work, I will try fixboot tomarrow. There is an option for Resizing disks to fill unallocated space but for some reason it wont let me select the option maybe that is for just unpartitioned space I don't know. I have found a program that would work very well for this, called Casper XP but I only have the Demo (its 49.99 I believe). Anyways if anyone knows how to get this feature to work correctly any help would work. When i bought ghost 9 it did come with ghost 2003. I wonder if burning an image to a disk then using a restore on a new drive would work. But a program like ghost should be able to resize a drive. The feature is specifically for upgrading to a new, larger hard drive. APK as far as restores go yes it does restore from a boot disk. But the drive copy feature you can use directly out of windows