Re: [PCTECH] Re: Norton Ghost - NTLDR is missing, Win2000 won't boot from disk

[Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think it was down to the fact I was changing disks, and the disk 
geometry was different (255 heads on old, 240 on new).  But still, I 
explicitly asked about that scenario with Symantec support BEFORE I 
purchased the product, and they said it would work fine, so I would have 
thought they could have programmed around that, or at least have mentioned 
the possibility in their documentation, or online support - but nothing !. 
 Then to find out when you call tech support they don't even have a phone 
menu option for Ghost 9.0 - only 2003 and older - was, to say the least, 
very annoying.  :-)   Never was able to reach their support after I got 
the problem.  Not very impressed with Symantec support at all.

...Neil




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Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:
> Where am I at now ?  Well I created a Win2000 boot diskette (ntldr, 
> ntdetect.com & boot.ini copied from a Win 2000 Pro PC (mine actually, I 
> put the "dying" disk back in for a while) after a full format of the 
> diskette on my Win2000 Pro PC.  If I leave the diskette in the drive 
when 
 > <much stuff deleted>

Did you copy the entire disk to an image, or just the partition?

Any chance the thinkpad had a specialized boot partition that boots 
BEFORE Windows boots?

It might be worth trying to install Windows from scratch, then restore 
the image.

I've used the copy of Ghost that Symantec includes with Norton System 
Works Pro multiple times to image my laptop to the network and restore 
without a problem afterwards.

david