Cloned Drive wont boot Redux - Not SATA

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I have a machine that was recently upgraaded from W98SE to XP Pro. The hard drive in it is slowly dying. I wanted to clone it to a new drive. I have tried with both Maxtor's Maxblast3 and with Powerquest's Drive Image 7 "Copy Drive". In each instance, when I set the newly cloned drive up as the primary master and boot to it, the boot sequence stops at the screen where the login names should be displayed. I get the blue background and the Windows logo, but it (the logo) is centered rather than in the left 1/3rd of the screen, and the logon names are not displayed. Booting into the safe mode gave the same result. Even the administrator's logon was not available. The cloning was done while logged on with admin priveledges with DI7 and from DOS with maxblast

Any insights will be appreciated
CJon
 
If you did it while in DOS using MaxBlast how are any long file names
preserved?

cjon said:
I have a machine that was recently upgraaded from W98SE to XP Pro. The
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hard drive in it is slowly dying. I wanted to clone it to a new drive. I
have tried with both Maxtor's Maxblast3 and with Powerquest's Drive Image 7
"Copy Drive". In each instance, when I set the newly cloned drive up as the
primary master and boot to it, the boot sequence stops at the screen where
the login names should be displayed. I get the blue background and the
Windows logo, but it (the logo) is centered rather than in the left 1/3rd of
the screen, and the logon names are not displayed. Booting into the safe
mode gave the same result. Even the administrator's logon was not
available. The cloning was done while logged on with admin priveledges with
DI7 and from DOS with maxblast.
 
I tried to answer this the other day and it didn't take.
I think (emphasis on think) that the maxblast is a bit by bit copy, like the old track & sector floppy cloners. That means it doesn't care about filenames, only 1's & 0's. It is XP that carea about filenames. But that's just what I think.

Interesting that I posted this questin in 2 different places and got exactly this 1 response, which didn't address the question at all.

For that it's worth, I finally got it to work by creating an image on a separage HD, swapping main HDs and "restoring" the image back to the new HD.
 
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