Boot Problem on Home Edition

[Guest]

I have a user who installed a new drive in his home computer. Upon doing so he Ghosted his old drive C and then applied the image to his new Drive D. Instead of removing the old drive he left it as is and rebooted the machine. Now his original C drive has been reanamed I and the New drive is now C. If he removes the old drive the computer gets to the loading personal settings screen and bombs out. If he removes the new drive and trys to boot from the original drive it fails. Is there an easy way to remedy this???

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

I have a user who installed a new drive in his home computer. Upon
doing so he Ghosted his old drive C and then applied the image to his
new Drive D. Instead of removing the old drive he left it as is and
rebooted the machine. Now his original C drive has been reanamed I
and the New drive is now C. If he removes the old drive the computer
gets to the loading personal settings screen and bombs out. If he
removes the new drive and trys to boot from the original drive it
fails. Is there an easy way to remedy this???

Those symptoms seem inconsisten to me, but if he removes the old drive
and the new drive won't boot, then he should boot from the XP CD, select
the first repair option and run "fixmbr" and "fixboot" to see if that
will allow that hard disk to boot properly.

The old disk fails to boot likely because the BIOS isn't pointing to it
as the boot device. The drive letter shift is temporary. Windows always
demands that the Windows partition be C:.