Norton ghost cloning

[Kennyc]

How do I make the clone disk the boot disk? I cant seem to figure it out I can switch them and it works but it acts weird and when I go to manage in my computer it says its just a partition

 

[LiLithTecH]

How did you CLONE the drive?

Disk to Disk or Partition to Partition?

 

[Kennyc]

I cloned disk to disk I have 2 wd 80 gig hd's

 

[spyordie007]

probably in the bios, you'll need to set the boot location to be wherever this drive is.

 

[Kennyc]

I have put it as the master in bios but it still says its a partition in windows

 

[LiLithTecH]

Does it say 'ACTIVE' or 'SYSTEM' for the drive in Disk Management?

If you have both of the drives (original + cloned) in the same
system, you can only have 1 ACTIVE SYSTEM partition.

 

[corkyg]

A "cloned" drive is a perfect copy - everything in the same place including MBR. The best way to do it is to do it OUTSIDE of the Windows OS - boot with your cloneware's bootable CDR or floppy option. I do this every week - but would never use Norton Ghost - it is too expensive, complicated and not very user friendly. Today's best software for cloning is Acronis TrueImage7. It auto-burns you a CDR that is bootable and does everything. Never an error or problem. I do clone three drives a week on three machines.

 

[Kennyc]

It says system when I put it in first position but it also says its not a boot drive
When I use it it acts really slow I mean all the apps are there and all the info but when I put the original it works fine I think the problem is that it isnt the boot drive sectored in there some where and that makes it slow

 

[corkyg]

What you have sounds like an image of the drive, but not a perfect clone or copy.