ghosting from ata to sata

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I am having annoying problems ghosting Windows XP Home Edition from my 80 GB
Maxtor ATA HD ( 6Y080L0) to a 120 GB Maxtor SATA HD (Y120M0). I'd like to
use the 80GB drive as storage and the faster sata drive for the OS. I don't
want to do a fresh install as I want to avoid another activation and its a
pain in the arse to download the many updates that don't come with the cd
that I bought in 2001.
The OS is updated fully, including SP2. Ghosting appears to have worked on
the sata drive but the OS stops loading, past the initial loading screen
(sliding blue bar), at a blue screen with a small Windows XP HE logo. I'm
currently using Norton Ghost 2003 to clone the drive but the problem has also
occured using the sofware that came with the hard drive (MaxBlast). I have
even tried the fixboot and fixmbr commands in the recovery console with no
effect. It will not even let me do a repair installation, as a fatal error
occurs, stating that setup failed to install the product catalogs (I have
written down more information on the error if needed). Is there something
that I'm not doing? Thanks.


Abit NF7-S mobo
 
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