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    Norton Ghost V9 Disk Copy Issue - Please Help

    After wasting the better part of a weekend I wanted to post another solution. Please note that this is with Ghost v14 but I ran into a similar problem. I was moving to a larger disk and fromm what I could tell the Ghost worked except it wouldn't present me with a login. I got intouch with Norton support and explained the situation and they walked me through the solution. The base problem is that if you ghost from one drive to another and the target drive has a drive letter associated with it then you will run into the problem. The solution is to make sure there isn't a drive letter associated so delete any partitions using the disk manager in XP. Now use Ghost to duplicate the drive. Select the source boot drive (probably C:) then select the destination drive. This time Ghost will provide you with a list of drives and the drive you want to select with just have a * instead of a drive letter. In my case, an hour later I now had a cloned drive C on the new drive and when I reconfigured my system with this new drive as the master everything came up correctly. So to repeat, the key is to make sure there are no partitions on the target drive. If you have a partition, delete it so that your copy of windows will not associate the drive to a drive letter. I pointed out to Symantec support that they should document this better. Hope this update helps others that may run into this problem.
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