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It sounds like your new hard drive might have a read error on it. I got a brand new hard drive a year ago (80gig) and it had a read error on it also. I didn't realize it, because when I got it I chose "quick format". Quick format was pretty quick, but it doesn't check for read errors. The regular format took longer but it runs a form of scandisk when it formats and checks for read errors. A read error means you have a bad sector on the disk surface like the magnetic particles wore off or something. That can also happen if you drop the hard drive or if it was defective when you bought it. When you run Ghost it tries to duplicate the drive that your copying, but it also doesn't check for read errors because it doesn't really format and check the whole drive, so it might try to write to a bad spot on the new drive and one of two things wil l happen. 1) you get an error like you did, or 2) Ghost will say it's done, and your new image won't work right, or won't boot. My advice is to try to install the new drive as your d: drive and use windows to format the new D: drive. Then run chkdisk to check it By right clicking on the drive from My Computer and choose properties. Then click on the Tools tab and in the Error-checking field choose "check now". Check mark both boxes and let it run. Should take a while. After that is done go to START | RUN and type CMD and hit enter. You will get a dos window. Type "chkdsk d:" without the quotes and let that run. You will get a read out of what it found. If there is a section in there that should says 0 kb in bad sectors. If it says anything else like 1024 kb in bad sectors, then you know the new drive has errors on it. This is my guess to your question.
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If your back up a image from the first drive you can't save it on the same drive you have to have a partion or another hard drive avilable to save that image from norton ghost. now to load up your back up from north ghost you must use a floppy boot this to start north ghost on the dos mode. you could make one using ghot utillity and also if you have the original ghot cd you can boot from it also. *NOW* if you have a problem with the hard drive read sector. just like the use say. then your hDD has a problem. also north ghost is not a 100% back up your drive image sometime it crrupt itself. not know why. i have a lot of costumer and i install norton ghost and it works sometime on an cd even thoug they still get crrupt. go to the website of your HDD and download a lifeguard uittlily or a power scand HDD to see if your disk is damage or reading sector are very bad. how loan you hdd the HDD and if not to long contact the company you brought it from and ship it back or see warrnty you have with the store , good luck
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