Running Old "C" Drive in New Partition

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Eldon

I have searched and tried everything to solve this...no
luck. I hope someone can help.

I installed a new hard drive a few weeks ago. Because my
old drive (Win XP Home Edition) was so full of stuff I
didn't use, I did a clean install of Win XP HE on the new
drive, and moved my most used applications to it.

I then used Partition Magic 6 to create partitions on the
new drive. I copied the contents of my old "C" drive to
one of the partitions I created. This became Drive
Letter "D" on my system.

I have this set up with PQ's BootMagic, but when I try to
boot the "D" drive, the blue screen comes up while XP is
loading and says "autochk not found", then "skipping
autochk", then the system restarts.

I believe this has something to do with the old drive
being "C" and now I am trying to boot it as "D". I had one
suggestion to run a repair of the Win XP installation on
that drive with the XP install disk. I tried that, but it
didn't work. Anyone have thoughts on what I can do to
restore this old "C" drive as a bootable drive?

Thanks
 
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If it's not too late, try the other way:

Keep your old drive as C:, and do a clean install of Windows to D:. This will
put a couple of files in the C:\ directory and a boot menu allowing you to pick
which drive to boot to.
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Hello Howard,

I'm afraid it's too late, I have the new "C" drive all
set up and running well, with the old drive copied
exactly to a partition designated as "D". I've got to
find some way to make that "D" drive boot up.

Thanks,

Eldon
 
I'm afraid it's too late, I have the new "C" drive all
set up and running well, with the old drive copied
exactly to a partition designated as "D". I've got to
find some way to make that "D" drive boot up.
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You might need to install Windows to D. (Don't just repair it).
 
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