Cloning Windows7 harddrive

[I am Penguin]

I tried to clone a Windows7 64 bit system from a 250Gb to 500Gb harddrive using Norton ghost. The "new" drive would not boot. Windows repair stated that it found a boot problem and "repaired the problem", yet no boot. Seatools advanced found no problems with the drive.
If I install a fresh copy of the Windows7 and then it works.

Anyone have any ideas? I note similar issues with Vista.

Another issue. During the install I used windows7 install to first delete the existing partition and created a new one. Windows then gave a message that it has to create a extra partition (200MB). This is different from the original single partition on the 250GB drive

Is that for Fat32 compatibility, ie future use?

Question:
Would Ghost32 be compatible with cloning a 64 Bit OS harddrive?

 

[killadoob]

Well i for one would never use ghost, are both drives sata?

Acronis is the best to this sort of thing. I am thinking that norton is having issues with the drives being different sizes.

 

[LFX]

+1 on acronis

never use anything that has "ghost" or "magic" in the title LOL

 

[I am Penguin]

Well i for one would never use ghost, are both drives sata?

Acronis is the best to this sort of thing. I am thinking that norton is having issues with the drives being different sizes.

Never had a problem with ghost before with cloning all harddrives and oS's mostly upgrading drives in size. Served me well till now.

Both drives is SATA.

Anyway I will give Acronis a try.

 

[Arthur]

Just today I used Acronis True Image Echo Workstation to image the Win7-64 drive and restore Vista32, where I have the Garmin mapping apps installed. It took 6 mins to restore the Vista32 image. When I'd finished updating my Nuvi and PDA maps with Garmin 2009 maps, I restored Win7-64 in 6 mins.

Later today I'll turn the Vista32 image into a vhd for Virtual PC and then run it in a virtual machine under Win7-64.

 

[I am Penguin]

Just today I used Acronis True Image Echo Workstation to image the Win7-64 drive and restore Vista32, where I have the Garmin mapping apps installed. It took 6 mins to restore the Vista32 image. When I'd finished updating my Nuvi and PDA maps with Garmin 2009 maps, I restored Win7-64 in 6 mins.

Later today I'll turn the Vista32 image into a vhd for Virtual PC and then run it in a virtual machine under Win7-64.

Great! What monster are you running there?

Any info on that VM you are running?