Added HDD, Getting Failures

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I have recently added a larger (120Gb) hard drive to my Hp Pavillion,
running Windows XP Home. I used Symantec Ghost to clone the old drive
onto the new one. The new drive is configured as the master, and I
kept the older one as a slave.

Almost all is well. Almost. The most important problems as I see them
are that System Restore and Disk Defragmenter both fail with similar,
"...has encountered an error and needs to close". When I looked at the
information under the "System Restore" tab w/in the Control Panel, I
noticed that the new drive (G:) is not even being monitored. I suspect
that I somehow need to change paths or to let windows know that the
G-drive is now the system drive. Can anyone help? Thanks!
 
If the old drive was C, then you must make the new drive C, and do what you
like with the data drives. I'm not sure how you get to G. Normally, you
cannot change the system drive, so I'm not sure how you have got to where
you are.
 
I have recently added a larger (120Gb) hard drive to my Hp Pavillion,
running Windows XP Home. I used Symantec Ghost to clone the old drive
onto the new one. The new drive is configured as the master, and I
kept the older one as a slave.

Almost all is well. Almost. The most important problems as I see them
are that System Restore and Disk Defragmenter both fail with similar,
"...has encountered an error and needs to close". When I looked at the
information under the "System Restore" tab w/in the Control Panel, I
noticed that the new drive (G:) is not even being monitored. I suspect
that I somehow need to change paths or to let windows know that the
G-drive is now the system drive. Can anyone help? Thanks!
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There are lots of ways of doing this but most are complicated and can
go badly wrong. The most foolproof way is to backup your data and do a
re-install from scratch. I know its a pain but its worth doing with a
new master disk to ensure you have a clean install of the OS as a
starting point and its set up properly. I do a clean re-install once a
year anyway as a matter of course to remove the accumalated garbage XP
picks up.

Jonah
 
Thanks to all. Any idea how I can do this without a Windows disk?
(The OS came pre-loaded when I bought the Pavillion). Thanks again.
Love this group!
 
What you see are the result of NOT removing the previous hard drive when the
copied drive boots for the first time.

Wipe the new drive. Leave the old drive master, new one slave. With Ghost
boot media, boot from that media. Copy to the new drive. Remove the old
drive. Move the new hard drive to master position. Boot from the new
drive. If working, turn the PC off and add the old drive as slave and
format either with Ghost or XP.
 
Jonny,

Thanks for the solution--once I finally got around to it, it worked
flawlessly (and relatively painlessly!). I re-read the instructions
that came with the new HDD, including making the new one master and the
old one slave, and booting the new one *by itself* as master for the
first time was not mentioned. Thanks to you and this group, all is
well.

Dave
 
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