jaggededge

Ghost is piece of c**** - heard it b4r and agree. True Image is good - heard it b4r but disagree as I can't make it to work either (I accept that I am lil' dumb, but not that much so as not a small software work) Basically I have 80 Gig IDE rite now (which I want to take out) and bought a new 250 Gig IDE (Bought SATA earlier but couldn't make it work after cloning it, lot of forums said IDE to SATA cloning doesn't really work). I have two partitions on 80 gig (20 + 60 approx.). Just want to clone my C:\ (of 80 Gig) onto new 250 Gig. But I want two partitions on 250 gig as well (50 + 200) . 50 gig would be C:\ and rest 200 gig for other data. Tried make a copy using Ghost 9.0, it makes a copy but as soon as I take out 80 Gig and boot from new HDD, it just hangs at the startup with a blank black screen (DOS like) with a cursor. I looked up this thread http://www.ntcompatible.com/Norton_Ghost_V9_Disk_Copy_Issue_-_Please_Help_t30636.html, and downloaded True Image 9.0. Tried to clone with True Image. It shows that its cloning and shows the final "congratulations screen" but when I try to boot with new HDD, it gives me NTDLR error. I checked the HDD, it was blank, True image didn't copy any files. I repeated the process and same problem........... I am trumped......... I noticed one thing, my C:\ drive on original 80 Gig HDD, though is a 'Basic' 'NTFS' volume, but is not set as 'Active'. When I write click on it in the Disk Management console, the option "Mark Partition as active" is inactive (unclick-able Gray) by default. Since therez no active partition, could this be problem that cloning is not working (I doubt it , but who knows.........). I feel so stupid & frustrated, only if I didn't have tons of licensed sofa we installed on old HDD, I would have just did the clean reinstall, but its too much work and then I don't have CD's/keys to many of those software’s now (I lost my box during moving last year). Thatz why I bought backup software........ And now that investment has proven to be useless so far......... Please somebody guide me what to do ..........how to clone C:\ on old HDD to C:\ on new, given that I want atleast 2 partitions on new HDD, not just one C:\ of 250 gigs. Thx in Advance ~jagged

Ok, I finally found a way to fix mt problem. my new HDD is segate. I downloaded DiscWizard off their website http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html. Used that wizard to format the drive and move data from old drive to new drive. It does everything by itself, no need of Ghost or TrueImage. The wizard interface is very simple and guides you pretty well. Now I wonder if I ever really should have spent that money to buy Ghost.......... I guess I can still use it to take my backups, but if the intention is to clone a drive its pretty much useless or a very painful proccess.

Are you installing the application/driver with the IR receiver plugged in ?? If yor are, uninstall everything - take out IR receiver, then reinstall drivers/application. Hopefully it will help.