Hello
I have an Asus G2S notebook. I need a new and larger harddrive, but I would like to avoid having to reinstall the whole notebook. It is running Windows Vista Ultimate.

Here is what I have been doing:
1) Booting from a Bart PE-disk, running a normal DOS-version of Ghost from there (I think it's version 7.5). Local --> Disk --> To Image. This procedure usually works with all the notebooks I have had.
2) I create a Ghost image on an external USB disk.
3) Shut down the computer, exchange the harddrive to the new larger model.
4) Boot up on the Bart PE-disk, run Ghost --> Local --> Disk --> From Image - still no problems.
5) After rebooting, the computer just loops - runs for a few seconds, reboots, runs for a few seconds, reboots etc. ad nauseum.

I suspect that the utility partition on the original disk somehow is involved in this problem. I would like to keep that partition so I can do a quick factory reinstall if the need arises.

Are there any tricks for accomplishing my task?
I have heard of people with new Lenovo ThinkPads with the same problem...

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanx
/Simon

Thank you for your reply.

Hmm perhaps you're right about the DOS/Windows version. Let me check that when I get home.

I have read most of Goodell's documents, but I am not sure how much of it applies to an Asus computer (even though most of it seems relevant).

I have found info on the "-ib" on another forum and will try that also. Should I use it both for creating AND restoring the image, or just when I create the image?

I thought doing the whole disk would be the way to do it, but when I ran into this error, I also tried just cloning the partitions one at a time - so I have spent quite some time on this little job *lol*

I will check my Bart PE disk - I am not sure if it starts ghost.exe or ghost32.exe, but it should be easy enough to find out. It's been a while since I created that CD, so I have forgotten the small details

I will also keep you posted about my progress in this "game" - would definitely like to see next level 

sgatke001

Thanks for the report back with your results.

Did you review this thread:

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You might avoid having to do the *Repair* by using the Ghost switch *-FDSP*:  ghost32.exe -ib -fdsp

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Don't know for sure, but I think if the image is created using the *-ib* switch, Ghost will probably only allow a *whole disk* restore and will default to restoring the whole boot tract.  I think you get an error message if you try any other *partition only* procedure.  But using the *-ib* switch for restore, as well, will cause no harm--and avoid any possible issue.