Customer upgrading from 9GB to 120GB hard drive. (Sounds easy enough) Norton Ghost used for drive copy on Windows XP Pro system.

Normally, Ghost has this nifty little area right before copying where it lets me key in the size of the new partitions (and it already guesses the larger/correct amount). This time there was this funky slider bar at the bottom of the screen. I went ahead and adjusted it to fit the drive.

Guess what? It failed to boot when complete !

After doing a lot of stressing and a little research, I just happened to notice your good ole' buddy GoBack sitting over there laughing at me.

Don't worry about flashing the BIOS, it's GoBack !

Disabling GoBack won't do the trick. It has to be uninstalled. Be sure to boot successfully on original stuff after uninstall completes. There is a funky GoBack uninstaller screen that takes off the crud before booting itself again. Then one good notification from GoBack that it has been removed after you get back to your desktop.

Now my Ghost looks right. The last screen of a disk to disk copy has a place where I can modify the size of the destination partitions. (Turns out that slider bar was always there, but I never noticed it) Hopefully, this is the last copy for this system.

This thread recommended disabling XP's System Restore feature prior to using Ghost.