I have a Windows computer with a 320GB drive with a primary and logical partition. The primary partition is 120GB and the logical partition is 200 GB. It shows up as C and D in Windows Explorer. I am trying to use Norton Ghost to do an exact copy of the drive that is BOOTABLE and can be put into a different machine to boot off of. But I can’t figure out how to copy both partitions onto the clone drive at once. It only seems to let me copy the C drive to the blank drive, then it will copy the D drive over; problem is, in copying the D drive (i.e. the logical partition), it overwrites the original C drive I’d put on there. And if I do only copy the C drive partition to the drive, when I try to boot off of it I get an “error loading operating system” error. I have already tried using the original Windows XP disc to access the recovery console in DOS, and have tried the “fixmbr” command that doesn’t work. Ideas?
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1 Tofus // Sep 4, 2008
I havent used Ghost for a while now, but I think you need to clone the drive, rather than partitions, as this will retain the MBR and partitions in one go.
Have to say since Symantec took over from the original developers, the first few versions were ok, but after that, just like any other Symantec products, they became crap.
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