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Ghosted (destination) Hard drive: Boots up OK - then restarts the PC!

Asked by FJRMill in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: boots, ctrl, drive, ghosted, hard

After a very painfull HDD failure I purchased Ghost 2003 to make a clone of my new hard-drive for back-up purposes.

My operating system is WIndows XP pro
My hard drive is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB ATA/133

I followed very carefully the instructions downloaded from the Symantec website:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/8f7dc138830563c888256c2200662ecd/bed35aa1282fa1a888256a1f0005f646?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam

After successfully performing a disk-to-disk clone, to test, I disconnected the original HDD, configured (jumpered) the clone disk (an identical drive) as master and connected it using the original drive's IDE cable.

When switched on, the PC boots up to the 'Press Ctrl, alt, delete to log in' prompt and allows a log in. I get to see my original desktop.   Trouble is, after about 30 seconds, the PC just re-boots.  It reboots after about 30 seconds whether I have logged in or not.  :(

I don't know if this is significant, but when I attempted to create my Ghost boot disk using MS-DOS,  Ghost complained that the DOS boot disk I created through explorer (in XP) was not an acceptable version of DOS.  I dug out an old  Win98 2E boot disk and tried this, but when aimed at the WIN 98 boot floppy, the Ghost boot disk creation process crashed with a statement that it was unable to write a particular file.  So, Unable to create a Ghost boot disk with MS-DOS, I did the deed with with PC-DOS - and this appeared to work OK.  

I've been at this on-and-off for a couple of days.  Please can anyone tell me what I may have done wrong ??
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