installed new, 2nd, hard drive and cloned old drive to new using Ghost 9.0.
Computer recognizes new drive and everything appears to have copies.

Then switched drives (new to Master slot set to cable select and old to
Slave set to cable select).

However, when I try to boot from new drive I get message:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration
problem.Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware.Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk
configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Your problem was the fact that BOTH hard drives were set up with a bootable
XP. XP has a bad tendency of trying to boot from "last known" hard drive.
You should have booted with only the new hard drive first.

Also, Cable Select IDE settings are not "that" reliable. Master drive must
be on the LAST IDE connector and Slave on the MIDDLE connector.
Master/Slave settings offer better controls on which drive is Master/Slave.

You may now be forced to do a repair re-install of your XP.

Y.


"Piers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> installed new, 2nd, hard drive and cloned old drive to new using Ghost
> 9.0.
> Computer recognizes new drive and everything appears to have copies.
>
> Then switched drives (new to Master slot set to cable select and old to
> Slave set to cable select).
>
> However, when I try to boot from new drive I get message:
>
> "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration
> problem.Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and
> disk
> hardware.Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk
> configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional
> information."
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.