Re: Replacing Hard drive

Hi Kerry

I did not get any error messages, simply nothing happened after the Laptop
powered up, by the way I did select "copy master boot record" as an option
when copying the files, I tried a repair install of XP, the OS was found and
the repair install went through but when it rebooted, once again nothing, the
Laptop shut down, powered up but the screen stayed black

I formatted the new HDD again and ran through the whole Ghost thing, but
still no boot, I ran the XP CD MBR but still nothing.

I formatted the HDD again and installed windows to see if it was the HDD
playing up but it booted fine.

I'm all out of ideas

cheers
"Kerry Brown" wrote:

The other suggestion of formatting and doing a clean install will work but
is a little drastic at this point. When it wouldn't boot what error messages
did you see on the screen? Do you have a Windows CD? If you don't have a
Windows CD do you have access to another computer with a CD burner?

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


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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