I have installed Windows XP Professional (with SP2) onto a 4Gb USB solid state drive (both Intel and Silicon Systems devices have been tried). I used a procedure found via Google to modify a normal Windows installation CD to allow it to install onto a USB device. The Windows installation works perfectly.

The problem I am having is that if you make a Ghost image of this installation (using Ghost 2003 from a boot CD onto a SATA hard disk drive) and then flash it onto another USB solid state drive (same make and model as the first) it does not work. What happens is that it boots, the Windows splash screen comes up and then it blue screens and immediately reboots!

I also tried cloning the solid state drive (from the one it was built on that works, to another one which was formatted) using Ghost 12 in Windows. Exactly the same result.

Please note that if you flash the same image back onto the original solid state drive it was built on it works fine, so it isn’t the Ghosting process as such that seems to be at fault.

Does anyone know what could be wrong? Can anyone suggest anything I can try to fix this problem.

Thanks.