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Hello, I had the same problem upgrading the 40gb 4200 RPM drive to a 40 gb 7200 rpm drive in my HP TC1100. After many tries, here is what finally worked for me. I am running MS Win XP SP2 Tablet edition. Ghost 9.0 1 - Make sure there is NOT a Partition defined on the new drive. Use Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disk Management to DELETE the partition on the new drive, if there is one. After 8 tries with a partition there, it did not work no matter what. It worked the first time when I deleted the partition. 2 - I used an external case with a USB connector for the new drive. Make sure you turn off ALL of the AUTO PLAY options on the ISB drive BEFORE starting the copy. Otherwise, just when Ghost is finished, autoplay kicks in and then Ghost gets an error. I needed to select each of the file types, music, video, mixed and set the 3 - Start GHOST and do the DRIVE COPY I clicked on the following: Check Desitnation for file system errors Resize Drive to fill unallocated set Drive Active Drive Letter is BLANK (your can't pick "C" at this step) Copy MBR 4 - After the copy completed. I did a SAFE Removal of the Drive from the System Try option (just in case) 5 - Disconnected the USB drive. 6 - Shutdown the system 7 - Removed the old drive and installed the new drive 8 - Booted up in Safe mode successfully, went to check the Registry settings HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>System>>MountedDevices and the DosDevices\C: looked like it had assigned itself to the new drive, so I did not change anything. I rebooted again and voila everything worked this time. What a challenge to just get a new, faster drive installed. I thought Ghost would have made it easier than all that.

Hello, I had the same problem upgrading the 40gb 4200 RPM drive to a 40 gb 7200 rpm drive in my HP TC1100. After many tries, here is what finally worked for me. I am running MS Win XP SP2 Tablet edition. Ghost 9.0 1 - Make sure there is NOT a Partition defined on the new drive. Use Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disk Management to DELETE the partition on the new drive, if there is one. After 8 tries with a partition there, it did not work no matter what. It worked the first time when I deleted the partition. 2 - I used an external case with a USB connector for the new drive. Make sure you turn off ALL of the AUTO PLAY options on the ISB drive BEFORE starting the copy. Otherwise, just when Ghost is finished, autoplay kicks in and then Ghost gets an error. I needed to select each of the file types, music, video, mixed and set the 3 - Start GHOST and do the DRIVE COPY I clicked on the following: Check Desitnation for file system errors Resize Drive to fill unallocated set Drive Active Drive Letter is BLANK (your can't pick "C" at this step) Copy MBR 4 - After the copy completed. I did a SAFE Removal of the Drive from the System Try option (just in case) 5 - Disconnected the USB drive. 6 - Shutdown the system 7 - Removed the old drive and installed the new drive 8 - Booted up in Safe mode successfully, went to check the Registry settings HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>>System>>MountedDevices and the DosDevices\C: looked like it had assigned itself to the new drive, so I did not change anything. I rebooted again and voila everything worked this time. What a challenge to just get a new, faster drive installed. I thought Ghost would have made it easier than all that.