Norton ghost 15 purchase windows#

Norton ghost 15 purchase windows#

Once bootup was complete and i could finally access my system again, i noticed my SSD was the locked drive on which windows was running (the windows symbol was on it, and i could not format it), a bit surprising since everything i did still physically relied on the HDD. deducing that i had probably managed to mess up HDD's MBR with all my faulty and uncontrolled operations, i ran windows repair ONCE and it bred a new 'windows 7 (recovered)' to my OS listing on top of the initial Windows 7, which appeared to rely on my SSD for the MBR, but STILL used my HDD for everything else (i could clearly hear all the mecanical tics of it going on during the usual lenghty bootup sequence and when i used my system just like before, not exactly what you'd expect from an SSD, the hard drive activity window confirmed my point). so i physically removed the SSD but unplugging it completely, and tried to boot as if nothing had happened from my usual HDD.īut again, i persistently got the 'not genuine' error.

after i rebooted the second time on that F Drive and restored the C parition on it, i had my immediate punishment : the 'windows copy not genuine' error on my ORIGINAL disk. And again, without thinking, i forced it back online. the 1st thing i noticed was that Windows automatically disabled/disconnected my F drive because of a 'signature collision' right after the first restore (of the SRP). So i went in the restore options, and went to 'custom settings' and forced BOTH backups to be restored to my F drive. the result is, in order to clone the C drive, i made a One Time Backup comprising both the C partiiton and the SRP that Norton detected as associated to it like it should, and then tried to restore them one after the other to the SSD drive, which by the way already had an assigned letter (which was F before i did anything). Unfortunatly, i tried my luck without going through enough research, during my initial attempt to do things fast. Ideally, i would like to later use some available space in the SSD to make an additionnal partition but that's another story. My goal, as most of you have probably guessed, is to clone the C drive into the SSD and boot on it, and do whatever i want with the legacy partitions that will result from the original drive (holding both C & D) being a de-facto slave drive. Now, i plugged in the SSD, formatted it, made it up and running, a few copy tests and everything seemed to be fine, FW was up to date. (size is 100 Gbs, 30 Gb fre)ĭ, which holds my static data such as pictures, audio/video, games etc (size is 800 Gbs, 170 Gbs free) So here's the situation : i recently purchased an SSD drive for my desktop and obviously wanted to clone the system drive to it via my Norton Ghost 15 purchase that came bundled with it.ġ physical HDD, comprised of two partitions :Ĭ, which holds my OS, and the SRP.

A big hello to the community since this is going to be my very first post in the forums.