Greetings,
I am upgrading my Vista Ultimate laptop from a smaller drive to a 350GB drive.
I installed the OS and programs myself when the PC was bought, however I also installed the Media direct utility which installs 2 hidden partitions.
I tried to image the C partition AND the two hidden partitions and Ghost froze..
So I just imaged the C drive. Restored the image via the Ghost boot disc to the new drive. It restored.....but upon reboot I got a blinking cursor.
I used an image vs., the copy command because I cannot have both drives attached to the laptop at the same time.
Now having used older versions of Ghost for a long time, I was very surprised that it did not say something like "I am restoring to a larger drive, would you like to format as a larger drive, etc. etc..". I was surprised that the vista startup disc showed my restored drive to be a 90 gig image/drive.
I booted up with the Vista disc and tried a startup repair and it found my Vista OS on the new drive but said it found nothing wrong with my startup files.
Are these problems being caused by those hidden partitions I did not image??
I also now realize that since it seems to have created a C partition with the smaller 90GB or so size, that in order to get my 350GB the Vista "extend partition" utility will not work because it is the boot drive. So I'll have to install and use partition magic or something?
So I don't understand why it does not boot...and also why it did not format and use the whole drive. What did I do wrong?
The whole reason I used Ghost and not the Vista imaging utility is because that utility will NOT restore to a larger drive as near as I can tell.
I can't tell you how many times I have done this with Ghost 2003
Thanks for any help...
BJB