Can not boot into windows 8 after cloning HDD to SSD

Well Norton Ghost in rather old and doesn't clone successfully all the data from newer operating systems such as Vista, 7, and 8.

I use Acronis True Image Home 2010 instead and does a far better job. Most likely the Windows clone will load successfully, or in worst case I can fix startup issues using the installation DVD once and that's it! So download Acronis or similar newer utility and you should have no problem. To make sure that there is 1:1 clone, select the option to manually clone the disk and then leave the partitions as is, without trying to resize them. You can later expand a small partition to fit all disk from Disk Management.

Another option that can also clone Linux and Mac partitions is Clonezilla. This creates a CD-ROM with which you boot the PC and start the cloning process, and if I remember correctly it is free to download.