I currently have a 40Gig maxtor drive thats almost full so I bought a 120Gig maxtor drive so i can upgrade it. I ghosted the 40 to the 120 drive using norton ghost (clone) and it was successful. After I removed the 40 Gig and just had the 120 hooked up and booted the system up with that. It would load the windows logo and everything but once it got to welcome screen it just froze solid. Would not go past that point.. I tried to boot from safe mode, last known good and other modes but no go. How can i fix this? I know it can boot but it just won't go past the welcome screen and load the desktop. I really want the 120 drive to be my system drive, there must be a fix for this.

I would suggest you redo the clone. In the 40gig drive set the pagefile to no pagefile. The pagefile is usually the stumbling block with cloning. Then redo the clone. Remove the 40gig and place the 120 in its place. Then boot the system. If still a problem you can start the XP install via booting the xp cd and start install. choose repair not new install and you will refresh the system. You will have to redo your MS service packs and updates

get the help of a priest and perform an exorcism

Use the software that CAME WITH THE DRIVE!! Ghost sucks...once again. Jimi_l

Hi Mendez, any luck resolving this issue? I too am experiencing exactly the same problem. I have a 40G and I'm ghosting to 200G. The boot will only go to the point of showing the login screen but no users, shutdown option etc. Does your original drive have multiple partitions? Mine has two, Win98 (which will boot fine after the clone) and WindowsXP. I have tried the following with no success: - Ghost and the utility that came with the drive. - Turning off the pagefile prior to the ghosting - Booting from the load CD and doing a repair. - Disabling the login screen. Then it will let you put in your login information, start to login then immediately go back to the login screen. - Kept the partition sizes the same as the originals. - Tried disk to disk. Then also went to image files and back to the disk. All of the above yields the same results. One additional caveat, if I put the original back in the system as the slave, it will boot from the new drive. My two thoughts right now are: - it's an issue with the larger drive. I have an extra 40G drive I'm going to clone to and see what happens. - This has been a multi-boot machine for all kinds of OS'es in the past so my current drive letters are "C" (Win98) and "J" (WinXP). When I reboot with the original drive as the slave, my drive letters are D and E respectively and the slave original drive is the C and J. Well any thoughts are much appreciated.

I was using Ghost 6.5, so I tried 7.5 and had the same issue. One thing I did find out between 6.5 and 7.5 is that 7.5 is much faster. It would take about 2.5hours cloning 40G with 6.5, with 7.5 it takes only about 40minutes. I also tried cloning to a similar 40G drive versus the 200G, thinking maybe it was some incompatibily with the larger drive, however same problem. At this point I've tried obvious and obscure potential solutions with no success. So unless someone has some thoughts I'll probably be relegated to reload! Yuk! Any ideas?