jami1
02-19-2007, 10:34 PM
Ok I admit I need help now because I dont know what is going on. I went down to the store and saw the they had the new Hitachi hard drives in stock the 160 GB sata ones for laptops. Now the guy didn't have a USB to SATA cable so I could not attach the drive to the computer.
I have a spare portable 120 GB USB 2.0 drive. I used norton ghost to ghost an image, First I did partition to image option. This didn't work.
After the restoration was complete it says that the restoration is sucessful. when I reboot the computer it gives me a start up menu ( Because I had vista beta installed, but removed it) asking me if I want to start Vista or XP. I select XP. The screen flashes and I get an error that saids that NTLDR is corrupt.
The computer ask me to put in the restore CD and hit repair. The only problem is that I dont have a restore cd. Thinking that this was happening because Windows was seeing that it was on a different Physical harddrive I did a clone copy of the disk itself. Whole process took about 3 hours, for a back up and restore to the other HD.
I connect the external drive to it and created a ghosted image of the old drive to place on the new one.
after the restore same error. I figured out how to extract the ghosted image files and I figured out how to make a restore to the new drive, the problem is I prefer having my image this would save me alot of time
in having to install all my software again ( lots of software) and my updates (lots of updates over a 256 kbps connection, I am in india.).
so I am here wondering why this is happening. My guess is that NTLDR is not configured for this hard drive.
The hard drive that was in there before was a 80 GB 5400 SAtA drive I replaced it with the newest model from hitachi, 160 GB 5400 8 MB level II cache. I am really trying to avoid doing a restore.
Thanks in advance.
I have a spare portable 120 GB USB 2.0 drive. I used norton ghost to ghost an image, First I did partition to image option. This didn't work.
After the restoration was complete it says that the restoration is sucessful. when I reboot the computer it gives me a start up menu ( Because I had vista beta installed, but removed it) asking me if I want to start Vista or XP. I select XP. The screen flashes and I get an error that saids that NTLDR is corrupt.
The computer ask me to put in the restore CD and hit repair. The only problem is that I dont have a restore cd. Thinking that this was happening because Windows was seeing that it was on a different Physical harddrive I did a clone copy of the disk itself. Whole process took about 3 hours, for a back up and restore to the other HD.
I connect the external drive to it and created a ghosted image of the old drive to place on the new one.
after the restore same error. I figured out how to extract the ghosted image files and I figured out how to make a restore to the new drive, the problem is I prefer having my image this would save me alot of time
in having to install all my software again ( lots of software) and my updates (lots of updates over a 256 kbps connection, I am in india.).
so I am here wondering why this is happening. My guess is that NTLDR is not configured for this hard drive.
The hard drive that was in there before was a 80 GB 5400 SAtA drive I replaced it with the newest model from hitachi, 160 GB 5400 8 MB level II cache. I am really trying to avoid doing a restore.
Thanks in advance.