Norton Ghost 14 will clone my laptop hard drive but I cant reboot?

Question

I installed norton 14 on my laptop and backed up two partitiions (c and d) and backed it up to drive E. The files show up in the backed up drive but the format is a ghost image. And when I try to boot up with the new drive in place it says no os found. Windows xp is only on the cd C drive. Should it boot up? what am I doing wrong

Answer 1

You will need to use either a boo-table cd or boo-table floppy to get the image back on the new drive, there should have been instructions in Ghost to show you how

Answer 2

First off, you want to do a drive copy you dont want to image the drive, thats what you're doing and its creating a ghost image file.  Secondly, when you install windows you cant just switch drive letters, it assigns a number in boot.ini, so it wouldnt even be able to find ntldr.exe and would throw an error on boot.  You'd have to image it, then set it as your first boot drive and change the boot order to make it C:.  Or change every instance in the registry and windows to E.  Good luck with that.