"jimbo" wrote in message
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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

Jimbo:
From your description, it would seem that you correctly performed the
cloning operation. I take it you rec'd no error msgs. from Ghost during or
immediately following the cloning of your drive. And if I recall correctly,
you previously stated that after replacing the old drive with the
newly-cloned one, you were able to access that drive after booting up with
your C: drive (the Win98 OS) with both drives connected. And from what you
determined after perusing the data on your newly-cloned D: drive (the XP
OS), it seemed to you that the contents on the old drive had been
successfully cloned to the new one. Do I have this right so far?

1. Did you try to repeat the cloning operation just on the off-chance that
the first clone did not "take"?

2. When you boot, do you get the multi-boot menu so that you can choose
which of the two operating systems to boot to?

3. Assuming you do, you mention that you get the BSOD with an error message
when you attempt to boot into your XP OS. What is the specific error
message?

4. Could you post the contents of your boot.ini file that resides in the C:\
directory?

Art