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wangdaxiIt's always helpful to tell us which version of Ghost you are using. And the procedure you have used--to just say you *ghosted* could mean several things--did you Ghost from within Windows--or booted to DOS, or ....?! And, was it a *whole* drive procedure....or a partition procedure....or.....?!
Quote:so I put the OS HDD into another machine, it came up as F Drive ...
But of course this does not work at my main machine thinks this is F drive when it should be of course C drive
Think this through for a moment--the only machine that thinks your drive is assigned the drive letter F is your secondary *other machine*--it is that machine's OS that is booted and active and has assigned and remembers the drive letter of that *bad* HDD in its *registry*--the registry of the failing HDD and OS are not active when hooked up to that other machine and has no *memory* of that the drive letter assignment!
Quote:I can access the HDD for editing files on my secondary machine, but do not know what to edit.
What is the layout of your original HDD--how many partitions and in what order? Is it an OEM machine from one of the *big* manufacturers--Dell, HP, ...--does it have any *hidden* utility or recovery partitions?
Bring up *boot.ini* from the root directory (F on your *other machine*) on the newly cloned HDD--you can open it with *Notepad*--copy and paste the contents to your response here so we can look at it, and compare to your partition layout.