Can't Clone XP to drive upgrade

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I've just upgraded to a larger harddrive on XP Home. The old drive is
FAT 32.
When I try to clone the drive using Ghost from Norton Systemworks
2003, the new drive won't boot, and gives me a black screen talking
about ARC and HAL errors (heaven knows what that is). Alternately, it
gives me a black screen simply saying I have a "hardware
configuration" issue.

Same thing happens if I try to do a backup and restore.

Same thing happens using Drive Image Pro 2002.

Is resident backup tool in XP the only option in XP, or is there
something goofy I need to know about?
 
I've used Drive Image Pro 2002 to successfully image and restore my XP NTFS
C drive many times without any problems.
 
Norm said:
I've used Drive Image Pro 2002 to successfully image and restore my XP NTFS
C drive many times without any problems.
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but is that on the same physical drive or a different one?
 
The reason I image is to avoid all the time and effort to rebuild a system
should the disk fail or something gets hosed in the OS and I always do it to
a different physical disk.
 
More details might be helpful.
I've just upgraded to a larger harddrive on XP Home.
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I will guess that that means you added an additional
hard drive to your existing system, leaving the original
hard drive unchanged.
The old drive is FAT 32.
OK

When I try to clone the drive using Ghost from Norton Systemworks
2003, the new drive won't boot,
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Are you saying you had trouble that kept you from
completing the cloning process, or that Ghost
said it was done cloning, and then you rebooted
and ran into problems, or something else?
gives me a black screen simply saying I have a "hardware
configuration" issue.
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And at the point you get this, how many hard drives
do you have in your system? Did you at any point
reboot your system while it contained two hard drives,
both of which claiming to be bootable?
 
It is a clone from a relatively new WD 20gig drive to a brand new WD
30gig, formatted from Disk Management on a W2K box. The original
harddrive remains unchanged.

The new 30g drive was placed into a removeable drive tray, "master" on
the secondary IDE bus. The original 20g was "master" on the primary. A
CDRW is "slave" on primary. There are no other drives or devices --
IDE or otherwise -- in the system except for a floppy drive. The only
hardware change was switching the harddrive. A very vanilla operation
any other time I've done it on W2K or WinME.

The cloning process was completed with no problems or error messages.

Once completed, I removed the original 20 gig and replaced it with the
30g, jumpers set to "master" off the primary IDE, just as the original
had been The original 20g drive is in a box under my desk.

After the changeover of hardware, I rebooted. The machine went
through normal POST routine. When it tried booting into Windows, I got
the black screen with "ARC" and "HAL" and "hardware configuration"
errors.

I tried cloning with Ghost twice, tried a backup from the original and
a restore to the new drive; tried the Western Digital disk-to-disk
clone utility on their setup disk, and tried cloning with Drive Image
Pro 2002. None would get into Windows.

I took the cloned 30g drive, put it into a removeable drive tray in
another box to view the contents. It looks like the files all got
cloned into the new drive -- but I can't get it past that black
screen.
 
I don't understand. Are you recommending that she change from Fat32 to
NTFS because the Fat32 on her drive won't work with XP and Drive Image
Pro? Is that why she's having her problems?
 
You've been lucky then. Image 2002 is for all OS's except XP, Drive Image
7.0 is the right one.
I learned the hard way.
 
That's what it states on their website but one problem I ran into with DI 7
is that you cannot restore an image to a disk that is smaller than the
original. In other words if you image an 80 gb disk with 10 gb of space
used you cannot restore that image to a 40 gb disk. Powerquest support
recognized this as a problem and their suggestion was to use DI 2002 which
restored the image to the smaller disk with no problem.
 
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