- #Norton ghost 15 clone disk how to
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#Norton ghost 15 clone disk how to
I am ok to start all over as it is just a matter of connecting the SATA and power cables. If you can provide me directions on how to proceed, that will be great - starting from how I can restore the new box to the state as it came out of the box (do I unallocate the space via Disk Management?) I burnt the DVDs but never deleted the recovery partition.
#Norton ghost 15 clone disk manual
HP manual suggested to burn recovery DVDs and the delete the recovery partiion to recover the disk space.
#Norton ghost 15 clone disk windows
To your question - "The recovery partition that you chose not to copy, was it located before or after the windows partition?" if you mean the sequence in which it shows up, it was after the windows particition. It will be quite easy to disconnect the old drive connect its SATA cable to the new drive or connect the new drive with a new SATA cable and have both drives connected. Right now I have the original drive connected and have disconnected the SATA and power cable from the new drive. They all become highlighed, then hit the delete button on your keyboard.Ĭlick once on Vista on the left side to highlight itĮject the CD, close all the boxes and click exit to reboot your system into windows. On the right hand side, delete all the entries except "default"Ĭlick once on the second entry and hold down the shift key while clicking the bottom entry. Now expand Hkey_Local_Machine and go to Vista > MountedDevices Select the registry hive "System" (it has no file extention). On the left side click once on HKey_Local_Machine to highlight itīrowse to X:\Windows\System32\Config (Replace X with the letter you noted above, also start browsing by clicking "computer" on the left side because by default it will be pointing to the version of windows on the CD and not your hard drive) Make a note of what letter Ghost "sees" as your windows partition. You need to have the system setup with only the new drive installed, make sure the old drive is not plugged in. I'm pretty busy today, I'll give you instructions on how to fix it if you want to try that instead of starting over. The recovery partition that you chose not to copy, was it located before or after the windows partition? Where are you at right now, do you have the new drive installed all by it'self? Resize drive to fill unallocated space (ONLY if you want to)ĭON'T SELECT Ignore bad sectors during copyīut at this point it may be easier to fix it than start over. These are the settings you should be using: The copy drive should be done into unallocated space, ghost will create the partition and the format is part of the image. The copied windows will take on the incorrect letter and won't be able to boot because it will now be looking for F:\Windows instead of C:\Windows. You can't give the destination a drive letter like that. Would appreciate how I can go about fixing this. Also, I formatted the drive before initiating the clone. And I realized that I did not select Expand Drive to fill Unalloacted space option. The old disk has a recovery image partition thaI I did not copy. After that I get a light blue screen and nothing happens. Then it shows Preparing your desktop on the screen. When I start the computer, it goes through the Vista startup screen and gets to the Log In screen. When the process was finished, shutdown the computer, unplugged the power and SATA cables from both the drives and plugged the cables from the old drive to the new drive.Ĥ. Selected "Set drive active (for booting OS)" check box in the "Advanced Options" window, and also the "Copy MBR" check box. Slected the source drive, checked the Show Hidden Drives box on the top right corner. Selected the "Next" button in the "Assign Drive Letter or Path" window to select the default drive letter, which was marked as "F"Ģ. Then in the "New Simple Volume Wizard" window clicled the "Next" button in the "Specify Volume Size" window to accept the default volume size which is the entire drive. Connected the new disk and using Disk Management initialized and formated it - Right-click on the "Unallocated" space and click "New Simple Volume.". Using Norton Ghost 15 I tried the following steps to clone the disk:ġ. I'm replacing my 250GB disk with a 500 GB one on my desktop running Vista.