I'm trying to use Norton Ghost to clone a drive (doing this just so that I have a stable copy so I can fall back to it). Cloning a WinXP Pro drive worked without a hitch (was able to boot from the clone w/o a problem), but same wasn't true with WinXP Home. The clone doesn't seem to want to boot -- it keeps cycling through a reboot -- flashing briefly a text screen w/ message (but have not had much success in stopping it before it cycles back to rebooting). In both cases the procedure followed was the same:
1. install the OS and apply service packs
2. install applications
3. Attach secondary drive
4. Use Ghost to clone to secondary drive
5. detach original drive, attach secondary as primary
6. reboot w/ clone