Upgrading from 2 Hard Drive to one Large drive.
Partitioned large drive 5% to Primary, 95% to Logical Drive D:
Copied Data Drive F: to Drive D:
Used Ghost 12.x to create Image File of C: onto data drive F:
Used the Image File to restore into the new Primary drive
Disconnected Drive C: and F: booted with only the new large drive connected.
Could not get past the User LogOn screen.

It appears Ghost 12 unable to recover from a Image File into a partition. Anyone know?

Working solution: I reconnected the original C drive with the new Large Drive and booted off (Hiren's)CD which has Ghost 11.5 then did a simple Disk Image to the new drive. This wiped out my data and partitions. Repartitioned (Partition Magic) and copied Drive F: into the D: partition. Wiped (WDClear) and disconnected F:

So now I wish to use Ghost 12 to create an Image File to store on Logical Drive D: But from my above experience, have doubts will be able to recover from the image file into the C: partition if/when needed.

Home setup so nothing urgent but, any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks - had no idea XP remembers previous drive letter assignments.

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