I have a Pentium II 400MHz PC, 256MB RAM running Windows 2000 Professional on a 6GB hard disk formatted to NTFS. The system has been running just fine, and I wanted to upgrade the hard disk. I used Ghost 6.5 Enterprise Edition and tried ghosting disk to disk, and failing that, partition to partition. After ghosting the hard disk, I can put in the original 6GB hard disk and the system boots up and logs in just fine. When I try to install the 12GB hard disk, the system just hangs after power switch is hit. All I see is a flashing cursor / underscore at the top left of the screen. The only difference is the hard disk. There has been no other hardware or software changes on the system. Also, I'm replacing the hard disk, not trying to use both. Jumpers checked and set correctly. I know that it's probably something very simple or fundamental that I don't know about. Please help. The system was running and configured "just the way I like it," and I'm not too excited about having to start from scratch on the new hard disk. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly welcomed and appreciated. thank you.

I would stick with the disk to disk clone. Do you have the hard drive detection in the BIOS set to auto? What hapened when you tried disk to disk cloning?

Windows 2000 is ony supported in Ghost version 7. I ran into this myself and spent countless hours to no avail. Finally found out that you cannot clone a win2000 disk/partition with any version of ghost before 7. I used 7 and it worked perfectly. I ghosted a 2 partition dual 98/2000 operating system with no problems. I even was able to ghost a back up of the win 2000 partition to my CDR drive and span several CDs. Hope Ive helped ya.

Thanks for the reply. Actually, when ghosting, all looks good. I ghosted from 6GB (disk to disk) to 12GB and no errors or other signs that it would fail. Again this was with ghost 6.5 Enterprise. It's only after I remove the original hdd and replace it with the new hdd that I see any sign of trouble. no boot - no sign of life, just a flashing cursor/underscore. BIOS looks good - set to autodetect, and I can boot to a bootable floppy disk or CD if inserted. I will check into purchasing a copy of ghost version 7 to see what that can do. Thanks, Bruce

To Mike, I don't know where you got the info that Ghost 7 is the only version that is compatible with Win2k, cos ghost has been fine with Win2k since v6.03. Allgire, I would suggest you use MS Sysprep which can be found on the Win2k cd or v1.1 can be dl from microsoft. It's a very small app that you run from within Win2k which will reboot your pc and reset the sid. You then run Ghost and create your image onto your new hd. Then reboot with your new hd and a mini setup wizard will be invoked asking you for name, adress, cd key, etc and creates a new sid. The problem you are having simply sounds like a hardware conflict that is common with ghost and Win2k and is solved by using Sysprep. Win98 did not have this problem because the 9x kernell is very different to NT.