2 WEEKS and counting, can you help?

[James D]

I recently upgraded the hard disk in my computer. I
partitioned, formatted and made the new disk active with
the Disk Management utility in Windows XP.
Then I cloned the old drive to the new one with Norton
Ghost. After that operation completed, I disconnected the
old drive and made the new drive a single master on the
Primary IDE. Booted the computer up to the Windows XP cd
and ran the "repair console" choosing the FIXBOOT option.
I rebooted and am at the point now where the computer
just "hangs" at the light blue Windows XP screen.

It appears that "most" of the files were copied. The
reason I say most is because when I did a comparison of
the old and new drives (used space) there appeared to be a
difference in total bytes of around 31,172,239. Was
something of importance not copied over?

Also, I didn't mention that I have 4 separate user
profiles on this hard drive. Would having separate user
profiles make a difference in the way it boots up?

I have been on this for about 2 weeks and really would
like to complete this project. Can someone PLEASE offer
assistance on this?

 

[squidfoot]

Hi, I don't really have an answer for you, but might lead you to someone
who does. Why did you do all that in the first place? Did you not like
having your old disc as a slave? Anyway, search down thru the forum for
similar questions. Look for answers by MVP's like Jupiter jones, Kelly,
DougKnox, Chris Lanier. Mo smarter than me. Also might check with Marfer @
www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/xp_notes.htm

good luck

squid

 

[I'm Dan]

I recently upgraded the hard disk in my computer. I
partitioned, formatted and made the new disk active with
the Disk Management utility in Windows XP.
Then I cloned the old drive to the new one with Norton
Ghost. After that operation completed, I disconnected the
old drive and made the new drive a single master on the
Primary IDE. Booted the computer up to the Windows XP cd
and ran the "repair console" choosing the FIXBOOT option.
I rebooted and am at the point now where the computer
just "hangs" at the light blue Windows XP screen.

I suspect that your problem was caused by setting up the new disk in XP
before doing the cloning. You should never have let XP see the new disk
before cloning, you should have cloned XP straight to the new, bare
disk. Without rehashing the explanation, Michal Kawecki had an
interesting solution here (actually, in m.p.w.general) a month ago --
boot from a Win98 boot disk and issue the command "fdisk /mbr", then try
rebooting XP. It has to be a Win9x boot disk, not "fixmbr" from the XP
recovery console. Try that and see if it helps. (See www.bootdisk.com
if you need a Win98 boot disk.)

 

[§kullywag©-]

I recently upgraded the hard disk in my computer. I
partitioned, formatted and made the new disk active with
the Disk Management utility in Windows XP.
Then I cloned the old drive to the new one with Norton
Ghost. After that operation completed, I disconnected the
old drive and made the new drive a single master on the
Primary IDE. Booted the computer up to the Windows XP cd
and ran the "repair console" choosing the FIXBOOT option.
I rebooted and am at the point now where the computer
just "hangs" at the light blue Windows XP screen.

It appears that "most" of the files were copied. The
reason I say most is because when I did a comparison of
the old and new drives (used space) there appeared to be a
difference in total bytes of around 31,172,239. Was
something of importance not copied over?

Also, I didn't mention that I have 4 separate user
profiles on this hard drive. Would having separate user
profiles make a difference in the way it boots up?

I have been on this for about 2 weeks and really would
like to complete this project. Can someone PLEASE offer
assistance on this?

Your difference in disk size MAY be cache/virtual memory related,
often some of these files are not copied when "cloning" because they
are "in use". This is not a problem.
Do a "repair install", and everything should be fine.
If you do not know how to do a repair install, look at the below link:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


§kullywag©-