[chuckles]

I just replaced the hard drive in my main box with a SCSI instead of EIDE. Saved a Ghost image to a "D" drive and did the deed. MS won't boot, reinstalled and re Activated. Crashed twice, reativated again, twice. Adobe says reactivate, did it and next boot, says needs again. Uninstalled and reinstalled and reactivated. Needs 3 upgrades to ver. 7.09. Download and reboot, says needs to reactivate. Norton Systemworks says to reactivate. I will continue this weekend, but I'm tired of it right now. Seems when you ghost an image, it follows you to the next drive and won't jive with what "they" see. They smell a rat and shut you down. A re install is the only way I see so far. If you have as much stuff as I have, that's activation hell. That's why I bought Ghost in the first place. If only I spoke Linux.

Some people here on FR seem to pull the puter out of the box and switch it on and never do anything but send e mail and post on blogs. Nice world if that's all you do. If you have several programs other than vanilla, it becomes a full time job just keeping 3 computer network going at home. Activation is just one more hassle to work around I don't need.

PS. I make my living with my computer, so it really matters that I be able to be up and running every day. I can't just walk away and say, maybe next week.

[Barrett 50BMG]

yea not sure what version of ghost you used but ghost really isn't the best program anyhow for what you where trying to do a "fresh install" would be the best bet.

remember ghost is trying to make an exact mirror of your old EIDE drive onto your new SCSI drive, bit for bit...

sometimes this can get funky, what I would suggest that you do would be to re-install , your old EIDE hard drives... put the ghost image back on it... then get an external hard drive and do a backup of you critical data.(OR back up your data to DVD's, although an external drive is MUCH nicer)

then, re-install the new SCSI drives then do a fresh install of the new OS.