Changed Hard drives, now XP will not boot

[Jordan]

I transferred the data from a failing Hard Drive to a new
one, and now Windows XP will not boot. I tried a repair
from the CD, but as soon as it went through the first
procedure and went to reboot, it got to the point to boot
from the hard drive and will not go any farther. How can
I fix this?

 

[peter]

We dont know how you "transfered" the data fom old to new..did you clone the old
to the new??
Did you test by booting with old drive in and new as slave to see if data is on
new drive??
If all appears to be there did you lose your MBR??
Try booting up using the XP CD-ROM and choose to repair. Then choose the
Recovery Console Option...
Choose the number corresponding to your XP version and enter your
Administrator Password (then press enter).

After that you'll see a command prompt...enter the following command:

bootcfg /rebuild" command to fix boot.ini.
FIXBOOT will fix the boot sector on the boot drive,
FIXMBR will fix the master boot record if the NT loader
complains of a missing HAL or unmountable boot volume.



After the process is completed enter the command EXIT to quit (and the
system should auto reboot OK from that point onwards...
peter