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.
Yeah, that's about what I did. I restored the ghost image and then rebooted and of course, no joy. So I stuck the XP disk in and reinstalled over the top of the original install. Everything looked good, but it has mucho glitches. I will just have a clean install from the get go this weekend.
Ghost has always done fine until I switched to SCSI. The boot.ini and ntldr is just not compatible at that level. There are work arounds for most other changes, but that is too basic to jiggle with. Nuttin to do but start over.
Back to Activation....... I just think the hackers have this stuff figured out before the first copy of Vista hit the stores. Just like Xbox games and DVD movies, it's a waste of time. Pirates steal and others don't. I bet they spend more money trying to defeat them than they make. A billion Chinese probably had a copy before we did and not one paid for one copy.