Arrrgh!!! Cloning problem with Norton’s Ghost on Win XP
I offered to do a ‘quick fix’ to a friend’s computer (as if there is such a thing!), and three days later, I’m still at it. Her hard drive is showing signs of dying, so I bought a new 80 gig Maxtor DiamondMax intending to clone the OS onto the new hard drive before the old one goes terminal. After God only knows how many attempts, after the clone, on start up with the new HD, I get the message (from memory) “Windows is unable to start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root> system32\hal.dll.” I’ve tried copying this file from the original hard drive onto the new HD to no effect.
The original HD continues to work fine (but for how long?), but I can’t convince the new one to get past this startup problem.
Anyone out there with a fix to this problem?