I have a friend with a Compaq desktop that's a few years old. I didn't write down the model number but it's got an AMD 2000+ cpu 512 RAM, built in graphics, etc.
It came with a 40 GB Hdd that had two partitions: C (which is 3.6 GB "Restore" partition) and D (which is the partition it boots from. It has a totalcpacity of 40 GB. I installed a second HDD a few weeks ago for him that is a 120 GB, drive F (if I remember correctly). He wanted to replace the original boot drive with an 80 GB drive. I formatted the new drive while it was in a USB external drive enclosure. I ran a backup of his D partition (the one he boots from) with Ghost and then ran the Ghost restore function and placed the image onto the 80 GB drive and selected to make it active. I then put it into his case, on the same cable connecter as his original drive and set the jumpers to CS, as his original drive was. However, it will not boot. I also tried setting the drive to Master. When trying to boot it shows the original Compaq splash screen (with F1 to access setup and F10 to access restore options) for a couple of seconds and then goes black with "Unable to read-Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot" error message. I then tried reloading the image (it was stored on drive F) with Ghost restore procedure, again making the drive active. No joy. I can access the Bios and the drive shows as primary master and no problems seem to exist. I also checked the boot order and no problem.
So, either the Ghost image is crap (I did have Ghost "verify" image integrity) or I'm thinking it's something to do with that restore partition. Maybe I'm crazy but is it possible that somewhere in the Bios or whatever that the Compaq must be able to "see" that C restore partition in order to boot? Help!! (Sorry so long).
BTW, the 80 GB drive we are trying to use was in his USB external enclosure and in use up to the point we started this, so it was working fine. We replaced that with a 200 GB drive and there was no problem with that. I put the original 40 GB drive back into his computer and it booted just fine.
It came with a 40 GB Hdd that had two partitions: C (which is 3.6 GB "Restore" partition) and D (which is the partition it boots from. It has a totalcpacity of 40 GB. I installed a second HDD a few weeks ago for him that is a 120 GB, drive F (if I remember correctly). He wanted to replace the original boot drive with an 80 GB drive. I formatted the new drive while it was in a USB external drive enclosure. I ran a backup of his D partition (the one he boots from) with Ghost and then ran the Ghost restore function and placed the image onto the 80 GB drive and selected to make it active. I then put it into his case, on the same cable connecter as his original drive and set the jumpers to CS, as his original drive was. However, it will not boot. I also tried setting the drive to Master. When trying to boot it shows the original Compaq splash screen (with F1 to access setup and F10 to access restore options) for a couple of seconds and then goes black with "Unable to read-Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot" error message. I then tried reloading the image (it was stored on drive F) with Ghost restore procedure, again making the drive active. No joy. I can access the Bios and the drive shows as primary master and no problems seem to exist. I also checked the boot order and no problem.
So, either the Ghost image is crap (I did have Ghost "verify" image integrity) or I'm thinking it's something to do with that restore partition. Maybe I'm crazy but is it possible that somewhere in the Bios or whatever that the Compaq must be able to "see" that C restore partition in order to boot? Help!! (Sorry so long).
BTW, the 80 GB drive we are trying to use was in his USB external enclosure and in use up to the point we started this, so it was working fine. We replaced that with a 200 GB drive and there was no problem with that. I put the original 40 GB drive back into his computer and it booted just fine.