I have two Western Digital NTSF formatted IDE HD's both partitioned...the destination disk partition is slightly larger than the source and neithter disk is dynamic disk. I've tried both cloning and making a standard image file of my Win XP Pro C-drive with Ghost 2003 and it won't boot. It will post, go to the BLACK xp pro screen, but then, instead of next seeing the blue WELCOME screen then booting, it goes to a blue screen with a small "WINDOWS XP" logo and just hangs. I've run integrity chk and all's well. I've read that Win xp may be "confused" by the drive letter not being "C" on the Ghosted drive so on the last cloning attempt I shut down the pc right after the cloning finished and put the newly cloned disk in the box by itself to try to trick, if you will, the os into recognizing it as the original C drive: no luck. Next I read that the MBR might be corrupted by the Ghosting process and used Windows XP Recovery Console FIXBOOT and FIXMBR command to try to both fix and rebuild the MBR: no luck with that either. Interesting thing is, I CAN get the newly Ghosted drive to boot as C if I run it concurrently with the original (source) drive installed in slave position. Also downloaded ghreboot.exe but can't figure out how to run that on a floppy as my CD drive is not working at this time. I'm almost out of hairs to pull ! Any input would be appreciated.

Try cloning "disk to disk" instead of "partition to partition". Rgds.

Did you save it as .img or .gho. An image file will not boot but a .gho file will. I use Ghost all the time and it works perfectly.

Have the same problem, How'd you solve it?

i have exactly the same problem taken grom a .gho file. it will boot but only with the original HD in.A friend told me that it was a security feature of xp and that it recognises its not the original hard drive.He also said that someone he knew had got it to work using a feature in the very latest version of partition magic.I'm only going on heresay so if i have any success will report back.