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Recovering image to a bare metal machine

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 4 comments
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I am trying to recover my Windows XP workstation in a new bare metal workstation using Norton Ghost v14. I followed the following procedures:

1. Took the image backup of the old machine and put it in an external drive.

2. With System Recovery Disk booted the new machine and restored the backedup image from the external drive. The restoration was successful.

3. But when I am restarting the new machine it is showing "Operating System Not Found". 

Is there any steps that I might be missing?

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Kurbycar32's picture
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2009
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This forum is for ghost enterprise

you are using the consumer version of ghost but..  it sounds like you are trying to do a brain transplant moving your old OS setup from your old computer to the new one.  Its likely that the new machine is using a completely different set of drivers and without severe tweaking of your original image this wont work.  the problem you are having is probably due to a difference in boot partitions, im betting your last computer was a Dell/HP consumer something and it has a built in diagnostic tool partition, your new computer doesnt have this and your computer is trying to boot from a partition that doesnt exist.  your best bet is to build your new machine from scratch and just transfer your files

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2009
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Hi Kurbycar32,

According to you I formatted the same machine and tried to recover the Ghost Image, but the same problem persists.

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2009
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Operating System not found

Operating System not found appears, if the OS can't be loaded correctly. The problem may be, that your old PC has another storage chipset then your new one. The bad thing is, that if its the error, you have to reinstall your Windows and transfer your data using ghost explorer, just like kurbycar32 mentioned.
What chipsets did you have on your old and your new PC `?

Greetings

Alexander Emmer

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2009
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Both the PCs have same brand,

Both the PCs have same brand, model i.e., identical. Reinstalling Windows and then transferring data using ghost explorer is working for me, but I wan't to know is there any steps I am missing for bare metal recovery?