Booting XP Home SP2 from NEW HD - diskcopy using Norton Ghost

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm working on my daughter's Gateway PC (2 MHZ, 40GB WesternDigital HD)- had
been very slow. Norton Benchmark tests were all OK with the exception of all
of the HD tests (benchmark machine was 800 to 1200% faster). Purchased new
80 GB Maxtor HD tonight, formatted using XPSP2 NTFS on old disk and used
Norton Ghost to copy old disk to new - copying boot sectors and making active
as well. Old drive is disconnected and new is set as master and conncted to
cable master connection. New drive boots into XP, but has blue screen with
XP logo, does not go to log-on screen. Is there something else I need to do?
Don't want to reinstall XP as I had just finished reinstalling XP on the old
drive a few days ago and downloading and installing SP2 using dialup thinking
this might solve speed problem. There were no other indications of a bad
disk.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Just tried F* to safe mode as well as to last good configuration. No help.

 

[Guest]

Should read F8 vs. F*

 

[Georges Jullien]

Hi,

I'm working on my daughter's Gateway PC (2 MHZ, 40GB WesternDigital HD)- had
been very slow. Norton Benchmark tests were all OK with the exception of all
of the HD tests (benchmark machine was 800 to 1200% faster). Purchased new
80 GB Maxtor HD tonight, formatted using XPSP2 NTFS on old disk and used
Norton Ghost to copy old disk to new - copying boot sectors and making active
as well. Old drive is disconnected and new is set as master and conncted to
cable master connection. New drive boots into XP, but has blue screen with
XP logo, does not go to log-on screen. Is there something else I need to do?
Don't want to reinstall XP as I had just finished reinstalling XP on the old
drive a few days ago and downloading and installing SP2 using dialup thinking
this might solve speed problem. There were no other indications of a bad
disk.

Thanks.

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Mark
The partitions of the new drive have been recognized by the XP system before
the copy. The new XP partition has not the letter of the original XP.
In this case it is not possible to boot on the new drive without the old
drive because the registry of the new XP uses many files on its original
partition letter . If so try to boot (in safe mode) on the new drive with
the old drive present (same config when copied by Ghost)
If the new XP accept to boot, the letter of the new XP is probably not the
letter of the old XP
Use the Knowledge Base article Q223188
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q223188
to swap the letters of the source volume and of the destination
volume in the registry of the destination volume in use
( regedit : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, right click on
volume, choose rename for instance C to Z, D to C, Z to D , reboot). Any
other operation may corrupt both systems.
This swap must be done in safe mode.
The old disk can now be disconnected (or can be used as a backup system :
modify the boot.ini)
To copy XP see http://perso.numericable.fr/gjullien/copy_xp.htm
Georges Jullien

 

[Guest]

Thanks!! Did not find the security settings but tried the swap anyway -
worked like a charm! You saved me from having to reinstall from scratch.
Mark

 

[Rock]

Thanks!! Did not find the security settings but tried the swap anyway -
worked like a charm! You saved me from having to reinstall from scratch.
Mark

:

Mark you might want to create a slipstreamed Windows XP installation CD
incorporating SP2 in case you ever have to reinstall XP you won't have
to download SP2 again. You will need to download the full SP2 file or
get one of the free SP2 CD's and have roxio or nero to burn the CD.
Here is a link on how to slipstream:

Slipstreamed Windows XP CD Using SP2
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm