Norton ghost problems

hey there, ive been working on this for three days now to no avail, im hoping somebody here can help me

i installed norton ghost 9 to backup/upgrade to a new HD.... i can copy the old HD over but cannot boot from it.... when i set the new HD as master it boots up, but then hangs at the windows screen (not the splash screen with the progress bar at the bottom, but a blue screen with a windows logo on it).... another message board said this is a common problem with ghost

i have tried saving an image of the old HD to a 3rd HD and then trying to restore this image to the new HD, but get the following error "restore of U:C_Drive.v2i did not complete successfully. Cannot read data from the image file. Error EBAB0003: This feature is nt yet implemented. (0xEBAB0003)." .... so does this version of ghost not support restoring from an image file?

i also made a ghost bootable DVD and booted up from it, it started the system recovery tool, i click on the "advanced recovery", and then "system restore" and nothing happens.... the computer just sits there... from what i understand it should be looking for an image to restore from, but it doesnt do anything

do any of you have any more ideas?

 

You probably need to check the "Restore MBR" as well. I don't think the standard settings include that.

As far as the copy goes...you're probably missing a copy of some hidden file.

Hope this helps.

 

Could be a issue with the new / old HD as far as bad sectors and not a proper copy, test both drives and redo the copy of your old drive if both have no problems

 

if you are still having the problem, you could try doing a chkdsk on your master HDD and make sure you select the repair options and rem to defrag also. then try running ghost again. you can try booting into an old win98 boot disk and do a fdisk /MBR to clear the MBR.