Cloning Hard Drive

I've used Norton Ghost to clone my 32G Western Digital
hard drive to a new 160G Samsung drive. I have several
partitions for Windows ME, programmes and data. I've used
Ghost successfully in the past to clone my drive to
another 32G drive, but I thought I could use a larger
drive to install different OS's, including XP.

After removing the 32G drive and reconnecting the new one,
I can sometimes boot into ME, but I get all sorts of
intermittent DLL error messages and memory faults when I
try to run several programmes, including Windows Explorer.
Also, after rebooting, I've started to get a red screen
telling me that the boot anti virus cannot initialise.
I've wiped the disk clean and done a clean XP install,
which works fine, so I know it's not the new drive.

Can anyone tell me if there are known issues with cloning
ME to larger hard drives? By the way, the Bios of my m/b
(Aopen AX63Pro) only recognises 136G of the new drive.

I've never had any problems in using Ghost to make copies of a Win Me
partition to another partition or drive where the size of the target partition
or drive is larger than the original. During Win Me testing I was
multi-booting between two or three Win Me partitions (using BootMagic) with
all having started life as the same partition. This was however using a older
version of Ghost (I think v6 but could even have been v5) and the partition
sizes and disks were smaller than you are using.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



damo wrote:

I've used Norton Ghost to clone my 32G Western Digital
hard drive to a new 160G Samsung drive. I have several
partitions for Windows ME, programmes and data. I've used
Ghost successfully in the past to clone my drive to
another 32G drive, but I thought I could use a larger
drive to install different OS's, including XP.

After removing the 32G drive and reconnecting the new one,
I can sometimes boot into ME, but I get all sorts of
intermittent DLL error messages and memory faults when I
try to run several programmes, including Windows Explorer.
Also, after rebooting, I've started to get a red screen
telling me that the boot anti virus cannot initialise.
I've wiped the disk clean and done a clean XP install,
which works fine, so I know it's not the new drive.

Can anyone tell me if there are known issues with cloning
ME to larger hard drives? By the way, the Bios of my m/b
(Aopen AX63Pro) only recognises 136G of the new drive.