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Old 08-22-2008
Clone hard disk using Ghost

Hi.

We tried cloning a SCO Unix hard disk using Norton Ghost.
However, the new cloned hard disk encounter booting problem.

What possibly go wrong?
# 2  
Old 08-28-2008
Was the new hard disk the same interface and size?

You might want to try something like Lone-Tar /Rescue-Ranger to clone the disk.
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