I have been trying to clone (Ghost 2003) my existing 30Gb hard drive on my laptop to a 60Gb drive using an external USB case.
The clone appears to work fine but when I install the new hard drive into the laptop and boot it goes through the self test and then I get a blank screen except for a cursor in the top left hand corner(this is not a does cursor, there is no input)
I removed the external drive after cloning was complete and before reboot as recommended by Ghost to avoid booting with 2 primary partitions.
After the problems booting I put the drive back in the USB case, Win XP pro recognises it as a primary partition and all the files exist on it from my old drive. There is one 60Gb partition, formatted NTFS.
I know the jumpers are set correctly as I initially installed a fresh Win XP on it and it booted up fine.
The bios on the laptop (compaq evo n600v) does not have any settings to detect a hard drive, just boot order ie hard drive, CDROM.
I don’t have a disk drive to boot to does and use FDisk, I could possibly burn a CD to boot from.
Any clues about what I would need to do to make this work? thanks in advance
