After cloning, dont get XP login screen.

Hello,

I know that I may have to chase this up with the Nortons Ghost help, but
I wanted to know what it may have done to cause the following.

I have XP2 with what I believe is all the latest updates. I have not put
SP3 on unless it just did that automatically.

I have had a few crashes and lost too much stuff in the past and wanted
to clone my primary C drive so if it happens again I don't have to spend
days getting things up to speed again.

I used Ghost to clone the C (with XP) partition to a good drive of the
same make, size etc.. I have done this umpteem times so know what I am
doing.

It did it's job well and when I rebooted I was able to continue my work.

When I had time, I wanted to check the clone drive so swapped it.

It booted up fine but when I was expecting to get the Login screen, I
got another same colour and style screen, but with a smaller XP Windows
logo etc. I was unable to interact with it as there was nothing to
interact with although the mouse was moving fine.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks

rock

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:16:28 +1000, rock <1940@pobox.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I know that I may have to chase this up with the Nortons Ghost help, but
>I wanted to know what it may have done to cause the following.
>
>I have XP2 with what I believe is all the latest updates. I have not put
>SP3 on unless it just did that automatically.
>
>I have had a few crashes and lost too much stuff in the past and wanted
>to clone my primary C drive so if it happens again I don't have to spend
>days getting things up to speed again.
>
>I used Ghost to clone the C (with XP) partition to a good drive of the
>same make, size etc.. I have done this umpteem times so know what I am
>doing.
>
>It did it's job well and when I rebooted I was able to continue my work.
>
>When I had time, I wanted to check the clone drive so swapped it.
>
>It booted up fine but when I was expecting to get the Login screen, I
>got another same colour and style screen, but with a smaller XP Windows
>logo etc. I was unable to interact with it as there was nothing to
>interact with although the mouse was moving fine.
>
>Any ideas on this?

So you're saying that for the umpteen times that you have cloned the C
drive, you had no problem booting from the clone except for this time?
If so, then clone it again.

Depending on how your version of Ghost does the cloning, you may have
to immediately disconnect the clone drive before booting from C in
order that the disk signature of the clone is not modified, so it does
not become independently unbootable.
>
>Thanks
>
>rock