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Old October 15th 04, 04:27 PM
jimbo
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jimbo wrote:
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


Thanks for the replies. Here is some clarification. Yes, I had Win98 on
the master HD. WinXP was on the slave HD. The reason is that I had a
Win98 system and then decided to try WinXP. Dual boot seemed a
conservative way to try XP without one big leap.

Anyway, my WinXP drive is getting full and I wanted to replace it with a
new, larger drive. And I didn't want to lose data or have to reinstall
everything. So, I thought I could clone a new slave HD from the existing
WinXP HD, swap it for the old, small WinXP HD and be in business. No
such luck. The drive letter issue may be the problem.

Is there a way to accomplish wat I want?

Thanks, jimbo