Norton Ghost 9.0 is MOST UNRELIABLE in its COPY DRIVE function, at least under XP SP2.
IF YOU VALUE YOUR TIME ABOVE MINIMUM WAGE RATE (UK), then DITCH GHOST 9.0 AT LEAST FOR THIS JOB AND GET Acronis True Image 8 NOW, and use it.
After a day's struggle with Ghost 9.0 I did this, it worked first time, I didn't even have to read the True Image manual to do it right.
:)So I gave up the Ghost.
The problem:
See other assorted posts in this site and also under http://radified.com. It happens even when you are simply copying to a new disk on the IDE cable, i.e. you want to move to a bigger disk !! - never mind USB connections.
Seems to be:
Suppose we clone/copy C: (master) to D: (slave)
You do that, then change the jumpers to make D: master, and disconnect old C:
But after copying disks, XP still keeps original disk IDs in D: Master Boot Record and in Registry (which has come from C: of course )
When the new disk boots, the copy program has not fixed this, and it still thinks it is D:, but registry reckons all the software is on C:, which is no longer there. So it starts up the OS and hangs on the Win XP splash screen.
Various hairy fixes are suggested on this and other forums
(don't bother even to try and get support from Symantec)
1. Change the registry disk entries
2. Delete the registry disk entries
3. Edit the master boot record on D:
4. Disable the XP System Restore
- some of which seem to work for some of the people some of the time. I tried 3. without success; also Ghost options of copying it and not copying the MBR.
1 & 2 seem like a good way to make both disks inaccessible. I left these ideas alone.
