Hello all!
Thank you in advance for any help you can give. Here is what I want to do:
Copy/Clone my IBM X61 Tablet (also a T61) 250GB HD to a new 500GB HD. I just want to be able to have the 500GB have everything I have on the 250GB... Here is what I did:

1) Hooked up my 500GB SATA HD via USB to my X61 Tablet.
2) Laptop saw the HD but I didn't give it a drive letter
3) Opened up Norton Ghost and selected Copy Drive
4) Selected C: Drive as source and :\ as destination (had no letter assigned)
5) Checked source and destination for file system errors
    Resize was greyed out
    Set drive active was checked but always returned an error because only one drive can be active at a time (I ended up unchecking it)
    Didn't check disable Smartsector copying
    Didn't check Ignore Bad Sectors during copy
    Checked Copy MBR
    Destination was greyed out and could only make primary
    Drive letter I choose NONE
6) Drive copied succesfully after about a half hour
7) Shut down and replaced 250GB drive in computer with 500GB that was the destination
8) On boot up the drive can't be found by the Windows boot so I put in the Norton Recovery Disk and make the drive bootable.
9) Upon startup it says that it can't find an operating system (Operating System Missing). I enter the recovery disk again and try to edit my boot.ini file but it does not exist. It says NO BOOT.INI FILES FOUND.

I can see all my files and the operating system but I can't get it to boot properly.
1)Has anyone else experienced this? What do you recommend to fix?
2) I heard that I can make a recovery point with the 250GB drive to an external HD (not the 500GB just an external). Install the 500GB into the laptop and recover the computer from the external recovery point (on external HD). Do you think this will work and be easier than what I was doing? Does the 500GB HD need to have an operating system installed.

Thank you again in advance but I have not had much success to date with Norton 15.

Diggs

Thanks! This was done with Vista Business but I will also need to do it with Windows 7 Ultimate.

How can I set the partition as active with the boot cd installed? I assumed it was active but maybe it wasn't.

It comes up with an error... I then enter the screen and enter 0 as the id and exit. It is active now but still does not boot... MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM. Still no BOOT.INI Files found.

Brian,
You put a link in post/reply#3. I went through that link/post and found a solution in post/reply#25. The link doesn't work. Do you have any idea where that solution may be?

Also, do you think it is easier just creating an image (backup point of the 250GB HD) to an external Hard Drive, inserting a new 500GB Hard Drive into the laptop and restoring my computer with the restore point from the 250Gb HD? Thanks!

I am sorry, I didn't read your post before I posted the latest one. It looks like just putting a recovery point will be much easier. I will let you know if it works. Thank you for all of your knowledge and help!

Diggs

I just want to be sure... I am going to do this:

1) Hook up the 500GB HD via USB and go under disk management and delete all partitions. Eject HD.
2) Hook up external drive via USB and create a recovery point to backup everything from the 250GB HD to the external HD.
3) Shut down computer and replace 250GB HD for the 500GB HD.
4) Insert Norton Recovery Disk and start up. Recover my computer from the external drive and overwrite the 500GB using some pointers from Red.

Does this sound right? Thanks!

This will be Windows 7 Ultimate. I think the are 2 partitions with one being a recovery drive.