"bxf" <bill@topman.net> wrote in message
news:1135773756.561068.312520@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
> Are you able to look and post here the contents of C:\boot.ini?
> Depending on the present contents, it may be necessary to edit it so
> that booting takes place from the appropriate OS files, rather than
> Ghost's Virtual Partition.
>
> I can't refuse an opportunity to repeat my claim that Ghost 2003 is
> often a source of great headaches - at laest when used with USB devices
> (are you there, Anne?) Do yourself a favour and try out Acronis True
> Image.


Hi Bill:
I guess you're referring to me Bill. First of all, with respect to the OP's
problem, God knows what he's been doing as it relates to his problem.

Bill, I know you're probably tired and even possibly annoyed, of again
seeing my positive comments re using the Ghost 2003 program for the purposes
of cloning the contents of an internal HD to a USB/Firewire external HD, but
I can only reiterate my experience with this program.

We use, as I've mentioned many times, the Ghost 2003 bootable floppy disk
(or Ghost bootable CD on occasion) to perform the direct disk-to-disk
cloning operation. We ordinarily do not use the Windows GUI for this
purpose. We simply prefer the simplicity and portability aspects of using
the media I've referred to.

During the three years or so that we've been using the Ghost 2003 program I
guess we've cloned to & from USB/Firewire drives hundreds of times. In doing
so, we've used hard drives from virtually every manufacturer on the market
together with dozens of different USB/Firewire enclosures. And rarely have
we encountered a problem in this area that we could attribute to a
deficiency of the Ghost 2003 program. What more can I say but relate my own
experiences with this program in the way we've used it?

Can I say the program is flawless? Of course not. But by & large it has
served us well for our purposes with the way we use it. As I have commented
many times before, I wish every piece of software that we use was as simple
to use, straightforward in design, and effective in what it does as the
Ghost 2003 program.

As David Lipman has pointed out, it is important to be using the Ghost
2003.793 (the latest version). There were problems with the initial releases
of the Ghost 2003 program as they related to disk imaging (cloning) certain
USB external hard drives, but that was rectified by the subsequent "builds"
including the 793 build in the early part of 2003 as I recall.

Again, as I've previously mentioned, while the program is not flawless,
whatever problems we've encountered in this area are invariably due to one
or more of the following...
1. Cloning corrupted system files from one drive to another. (If you clone
garbage, garbage is what you'll get).
2. Defective source or destination disk, or improper configuration of these
devices.
3. User error in improperly using the program.

I understand that for one reason or another you feel strongly about the
inadequacy of this program, and of course I'm not attempting to change your
mind about it. All I can do is simply relate to you and others my experience
with the program.
Anna