Ghost error after image restore

[knoorda]

I am re-imaging a new hard drive with a ghost image of Win 2k. After Ghost puts the image to the new hard drive, I get the following error.

"unable to complete update of boot.ini file. Too many partitions."

I click OK, then it says clone completed successfully.

Once I reboot the machine, I get the following error at boot up. "Win200 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path & disk hardware."

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[porkchopexpress]

Is the disk config different to the machine the image was made on, eg more than one physical disk of more partitions?

 

[knoorda]

Yes it is different.

 

[porkchopexpress]

How is it different? More partitions or more physical disks.

 

[knoorda]

Disks are in RAID but the new machine does not have raid and there are multiple partitions on the disk

I appreciate your help.

 

[porkchopexpress]

Hmmm not really my field of experties but i suspect that the boot.ini file will have the wrong info in.

Take a look at this link for info on altering it.

http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/mbr/bootini.htm

This is how an XP file should look for an install of Windows XP on Disk 0 (The primary) Partition 1

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn