Cloning A Hard Disk Drive for Upgrade
Hi Folks
Any advice on the following problem please?
I wanted to clone my existing hdd both for increased storage and also the possibility of the existing one failing.
Norton Ghost 10 was supposed to do the job, but it hasn't. I can see where I think the problem lies, but am unsure as to how to fix it.
The original drive is C: with as far as I'm aware no actual partitions - ie: it is simply listed as C: without D: or E; etc. However, there is 31MB which looks like a partition but without a letter. It says it is healthy, and has an EISA configuration while the remainder of the drive has GB NTFS and is also healthy.
After using Ghost to clone the drive, I assumed it would copy everything as in the original, but it hasn't cloned the EISA section. The result is that when I restart the PC using the new drive as the master, I get an error message telling me there is an error with the drive configuration. I don't seem to be able to access the EISA part - right clicking just brings up a help option, unlike the C: drive which offers formatting amongst other options.
I have googled the problem, but most sites refer to Win 200, while I'm running XP Home with SP2.
So I'm confused, and at a loss as to what my options are.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
HJ