Norton Ghost, Dell laptop, clone disk to another PC

[awfergusson]

I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 with a 6G drive to be updated to a 20G. I have Norton Ghost and have made the requisite boot disks.

1. With a USB boot disk, Norton Ghost does not see the USB. So that won't work.

2. With a network boot disk and installing a packet driver for the Linksys Network PC Card. (A PCMCIA), Norton Ghost doesn't recognize that either.

Any suggestions to make a mirror of my laptop's HD on the Desktop PC?

 

[tronic592001]

yes im looking for advise on this myself, laptop to desktop with norton ghost 2002.

Ive made the requested set of two boot disks one for my laptop and other for my desktop.

ive rebooted both my laptop & desktop, the laptop seems to be waiting for my desktop to boot, but when i reboot my desktop with the boot disk i made with norton ghost it sites on the screen where its got my name and reg. number, but my mouse on the desktop is frozen every thing is frozen can even hit ctrl/alt/del.



Ive disconected my dsl usb, and mouse usb, but no difrence on my desktop.

Im stuck on this as norton ghost tells me in the docs that this is posable.

 

[awfergusson]

I tried everything. continued to have the same problem. I finally gave up and copied essential files and then reinstalled all programs on the new laptop drive. So much for the Ghost!

 

[iaavagent]

Have ya'll tried the Radified site http://ghost.radified.com/
May or may not help.Good luck!

 

[JohnWill]

When I have issues, and they normally come up with laptops, I just remove the drive and use a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter cable to connect it to a desktop and do the transfer there. Works every time.

 

[DaveBurnett]

If the OS is 9x it will work in safe mode as long as you create your own shortcut to the executable.