Re: Replacing Hard drive

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Daniel wrote:
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

These are the questions/thoughts of a former sysadmin; never used Ghost so you might want to delete now...forgive me if this is way to basic.

It powers up but won't boot completely to the login window or safe mode, or you turn on the laptop and the disk just spins? Is there another laptop you can test it on? By any chance is external disk IDE and internal SATA (or any other flavors) and this is a driver issue? Could it be the bios problem where the HD wants to be defined as LARGE versus AUTO? (found that one in a forum) Can you boot directly from the Norton Ghost disk, maybe they have troubleshooting you can use with better results than tech support?

If it gets ugly I hope you can take the low road (reformat, install XP PRO, reinstall your apps and then restore from the external disk). Good luck, I know this sux 'cause I been there and done that.

R Livingston
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