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Stowelly
08-18-2004, 08:47 PM
ok ive used norton ghost to create a clone of my drive but for some reason the clone wont boot.... any ideas?
sad69
08-18-2004, 09:54 PM
Did you put in the jumper on the cloned drive to designate it as a primary boot drive?

Sadiq.
sage45
08-19-2004, 06:17 AM
What OS???

Did you make the partition active after you cloned it by booting with running the fdisk utility???

-sage-
Stowelly
08-23-2004, 09:09 AM
yeah the jumpers set to primary its using windows xp... . no i didnt use the fdisk utility afterwards but it still seems to be useable in windows as a normal partition.... do i need to activate in fdisk to make it bootable then?
sage45
08-23-2004, 01:03 PM
Yes if the partition is not listed as active, you need to activate it in FDISK to make it bootable... You may also need to activate it via a bootable dos disk, with the drive setup as master on the primary controller as well... ;)

-sage-
Stowelly
08-24-2004, 08:50 AM
nice 1 i got that **** sorted now ive got another problem.... win xp says it has some problem checking the licenses etc.... really dont see what the problem with this is as the ghost is an exact copy of it
Roy Sinclair
08-24-2004, 04:10 PM
Is the rest of the system the same? If you change too many things at once, XP will want to be authenticated again, that shouldn't be a problem though unless you do it frequently.
Stowelly
08-24-2004, 05:11 PM
all ive changed is the hdd even the source drive which ive ghosted from woks etc so its only one bit of hardware changed.... someones told me the only way i can do this is crack the previous copy of xp and change the serial to a volume serial no... any other takers on this as i want to keep my original numbers etc
Roy Sinclair
08-24-2004, 06:28 PM
Sorry we don't offer "cracking" help here. However, your previous message about what XP is saying was rather vague, maybe if you describe the circumstance and the exact error more closely we can provide a proper answer because what you say you've done doesn't sound like something that should require you to "crack" the OS just to overcome.
sage45
08-24-2004, 08:34 PM
really dont see what the problem with this is as the ghost is an exact copy of it

It may be a ghosted copy, however, the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) had be be rebuilt since you ghosted onto a new hard drive... This is in fact by design as Microsoft is protecting against people pirating copies of XP by ghosting them...

If you have your copy of XP and it is only one your system, then you should be able to reauthenticate without a problem...

HTH,

-sage-