Thursday, April 7, 2011

Windows 7 - W7 wont boot after ghost image restore on new harddisk

hey, guys, I solved the problems. Thanks for your answer.

I get the clue from gregrocker, as you have mentioned the word MBR.
Then, I search through the internet and found something about MBR, refers to Master Boot Record.
I'm thinking that maybe the MBR is needed to copy as well.
Ghost itself is not enough, because Ghost will not copy the MBR.

I decided to make a try.

I used Hiren's Boot CD. Inside the Hiren's Boot CD, 2 software is available for completing the task.
MBRWizard, Ghost32
about Hiren's Boot CD included tools >> www.hiren.info./pages/bootcd
about MBRWizard >> MBRWizard! - The MBR Management Utility

Download Hiren's Boot CD iso and burn it into CD. >> Hiren's Boot CD 10.1 and All Other Versions - HTTP Download

Boot from Hiren's Boot CD and enter Mini Windows XP mode.
Browse for HBCD Menu, you'll the 2 software mentioned in this post.

Step 1, use MBRWizard to backup/copy the MBR on PC1
Step 2, use Ghost32 to backup/copy the 1st 100MB System Reserved Partition and 2nd Partition (Drive C)
Step 3, use Ghost32 to restore 100MB System Reserved from image to 2nd PC
Step 4, use MBRWizard to restore MBR to PC2
Step 5, use Ghost32 to restore 100MB System Reserved to 2nd PC 1st Partition again
Step 6, use Ghost32 to restore 2nd Partition image to PC2

Done.

If you wish to modify the partition, EASEUS Partition Master is 1 of the software that can do the task.

Thanks you and Good Luck