Hey guys

I've got a new HDD for my server, and im wanting to copy/transferring my windows to the new HDD without formatting etc. Do i have any other alternatives besides using norton ghost?

Thank you

I can't think of any others off the top of my head unfortunatly. But I did perform this exact procedure just recently. Be sure to check your drive letters are assigned correctly though. HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\
When I did it I had assigned the new partition a drive letter in Windows. Then, when Windows was on that partition it was still dependent on C:, which that partition wasn't. I happily renamed C: to G:, but couldn't rename the new partition to C: because it was still in use, rebooted, boot failed, couldn't find any C: files. I should have used the registry to swap them simulatneously.
If your just swapping drive for drive I don't think you'll have any issues.

you can use DD in linux off a boot cd

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=block size of drive

you can leave out the bs= part, but if you set it, it will speed things up greatly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

Thanx guys.. Ive actually found another program that can actually do it.. Which is called Casper XP

Glad you found something to work for you. I was going to suggest Acronis-TrueImage