I have a Compaq 7770 Notebook upgrading a 3.5gig hd to 5.0gig. Ghost runs fine, but boot only makes it to post, after that, just a black screen. I ran the install program and had it fix the boot area, still no boot. Took a 6.22 dos disk and sys'd the drive, still no boot. Both the Compaq diagnostic part. and the NT fat(16) part. exists and look fine. Any ideas?

check your boot.ini file to make sure it's pointing at the right drive and partition of the winnt dir. the system should boot past post then display your boot options (nt or nt vga or dos/win95 or whatever) that is the boot.ini file. also confirm all your nt booting files are in the root dir. ntdetect.com, boot.ini, ntldr, bootsect.dos. From another nt system you can copy these files to a floppy to create a boot disk except you'll have to edit your boot.ini.

How many cylinders does the disk have? I've had a similair problem but my problem was that some of the directory objects and possibly the boot files (NTLDR or system hive) was moved to a position higher than cylinder 1023 on the hard disk. This meant that my BIOS could not retrieve that information using the partition table cylinder values (limited to 1023 cylinders) and could not load the directory information or the files. When booting into another NT installation validated that all the files and the disk structure was in good order, but the boot process could not locate what was needed and failed. Ghost possibly moves the directories and/or files out of the 1023 cylinder scope. Fixing it could maybe be accomplished by making anough space available to ensure that disk defragmentation would move the files and directories to within the limit. This is only my understanding of what happened and from what I could see on my machine. Hope it helps in some way!