Re: Replacing Hard drive

Well I gave it my best shot, followed all of the direction
and when I put the 80G into my laptop it would not boot, I followed the
Symantec technicians advice and did a boot record restore to no avail, in
the end one Symantec tech hung up and the other left me hanging, so now I am
lost.

I know this is not a Ghost NG but any advice appreciated

regards

Daniel
"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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That is the best solution, easier and less error prone than using CDs or
DVDs.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Daniel wrote:
Okay, I'm convinced, Ill give it a go,
I'm going to have to copy the Drive to an external drive and then
copy it back when I have installed the 80G
Hard Dive.
Will that work?

thanks

Daniel
"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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It may sound complicated but once you start actually doing it the
procedure is pretty straightforward.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


Daniel- Sydney wrote:
Thanks to all for your advice but I think it is too prone to
probelms and to me doing the wrong thing,

thanks

"KEKA" wrote:

First and foremost, your version of Ghost must be able to access
the media you saved the image file(s) on.

If he was able to access the media to create the image he will be
able to access that same media to restore the image.

If the laptop is in XP NTFS format (doubtful on a factory laptop),
your version of Ghost has to be able to create an XP version of
NTFS (NTFS version 3) partition for restoration. There also may a
question of the MFT and MBR restoration in some cases with older
versions of Ghost regarding XP and its version of NTFS.

My 2 year old Compaq came with XP installed on an NTFS partition.
Acer is one of the few OEM's that installs XP on FAT32 partitions
from the factory. If the OP has Ghost 2003 NTFS is not an issue.




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