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Old October 15th 04, 01:49 AM
Al Smith
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I have physical hard drive "C" with Win98 and physical hard drive "D" with WinXP in a dual boot setup. I want to injstall a new, larger physical hard drive "D". I have tried to follow the procedure for cloning a drive using Norton Ghost. I disconnected the cables from "C" and connected the new hard drive. (I set the new drive's jumper to "master" the same as the "C" drive.) Then Norton Ghost was booted from floppies and I cloned drive 2 to drive 1. This all seemed to OK. Then I disconnected the new drive and changed the jumper to "slave". Then I reconnected the "C" drive. Then I disconnected the "D" drive and connected the new drive in it's place. Now when I boot to WinXP it fails just after the WinXP splash screen. A blue screen with an error message appears and the system reboots.

Any insight will be appreciated.

jimbo


Wow, confusing time trying to understand your procedure. You want
to clone your Windows XP drive, which is your D drive (not the
boot drive) to your new drive, which you want to install as C,
right? So you can boot up Windows XP, right?

Well, if you D drive is not your boot drive, Windows XP on it
won't be set up to boot as C, will it? It will be booting from the
boot loader in the boot partition on your C drive, with Windows
98. Unless I'm even more confused than I think. ??? So when you
clone the original D drive (W XP) to your new, empty C drive, no
wonder it won't boot.