Ghost image and new hard drive

Try and slave your old hard drive.Off you new one when it
comes back from gateway.
-----Original Message-----
Recently I had a hard drive start developing bad
sectors. I used Symantec
Ghost to create an image of the drive onto an external
USB drive. My
computer is now at Gateway getting a new hard drive
installed. The OS is XP
Pro. Am I going to have a problem restoring
the "Ghosted" image to the new
hard drive due to it being a significant hardware
change? If so, how do I
work around it? I am getting nervous that I will have a
back up of all my
information and be unable to use it. Thanks.


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Thanks for the quick reply but I believe Gateway is going to keep the old
drive. Ideally, I would like to hook up the USB, restore everything, boot
up and go but I am reading some people are having problems with XP security
functions on the re-boot after cloning. The computer will be the same with
all the same hardware - except for the new drive.


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Try and slave your old hard drive.Off you new one when it
comes back from gateway.
-----Original Message-----
Recently I had a hard drive start developing bad
sectors. I used Symantec
Ghost to create an image of the drive onto an external
USB drive. My
computer is now at Gateway getting a new hard drive
installed. The OS is XP
Pro. Am I going to have a problem restoring
the "Ghosted" image to the new
hard drive due to it being a significant hardware
change? If so, how do I
work around it? I am getting nervous that I will have a
back up of all my
information and be unable to use it. Thanks.


.

I have not heard of anything like this. it should just
work fine. the other thing i can think of would be to
install ghost on the new hard drive and use ghost
explorer to open the image you created and pull off any
files that you need.

Can you just try putting th eghost image onto the new
hard drive?? it may work and if it doesn't, you still
have all your information in the image.

Hope this helps
Scott

-----Original Message-----
Thanks for the quick reply but I believe Gateway is
going to keep the old
drive. Ideally, I would like to hook up the USB,
restore everything, boot
up and go but I am reading some people are having
problems with XP security
functions on the re-boot after cloning. The computer
will be the same with
all the same hardware - except for the new drive.


wrote in message
...
Try and slave your old hard drive.Off you new one when
it
comes back from gateway.
-----Original Message-----
Recently I had a hard drive start developing bad
sectors. I used Symantec
Ghost to create an image of the drive onto an external
USB drive. My
computer is now at Gateway getting a new hard drive
installed. The OS is XP
Pro. Am I going to have a problem restoring
the "Ghosted" image to the new
hard drive due to it being a significant hardware
change? If so, how do I
work around it? I am getting nervous that I will
have a
back up of all my
information and be unable to use it. Thanks.


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