had a hd failure some problems resulted

G

Guest

I had my primary hd give some signs of eminent failure, ie sudden reboots,
BSOD's so I replaced it, and used the utilities provided with the new drive
to copy the OS's over, the problem came as I have a dual boot system w2k pro
and XP pro.
the w2k pro went perfect, when I boot with it, all the drive letters are
what they are supposed to be, C is for W2k Pro and D is supposed to be for XP
pro, E for utilities.
When I boot to XP however, things are not what they are supposed to be, C is
Utilities (my data and tools partition) D is W2k pro and E is XP Pro,
programs did not work as I was used too.
I finally had to perform a repair today of XP just to get some programs and
XP to work like it should.

The question is, why did this happen, I performed an exact partition copy,
actually it was a drive copy as it took both partitions and copied them over??
into larger partitions, old was 20G each, new was 40G each.

No activation was necessary for XP, however after the repair, registration
was asked for.
 
F

Frankster

The automatic drive installation utility does not support dual boot
scenarios. As you have found out.

-Frank
 

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