HDD upgrade difficulty

[Knack]

The 6GB (WinXP Pro FAT32) HDD in my computer is old and has signs of
impending failure, so I need to replace it with an upgraded one immediately.
The replacement IDE HDD that I purchased is 120GB, so I had to jumper it for
32GB in order for the last revision of BIOS (1998) to detect it. I set the
translation mode
of the new HDD to LBA (matching the translation mode of the old HDD).

Then I ran Drive Copy 3.5 with full diagnostics and it reported zero errors.
However when I rejumpered the new HDD as primary master I could not get the
WinXP Pro black screen boot menu. Instead I get a BIOS screen:
"Press a key to reboot"

This error seems to indicate that the MBR on the new HDD is not being read.

DC3.5 is rated for Win2000 and NTFS but it came out before WinXP. Perhaps it
cannot support WinXP FAT32? Should I have set BIOS translation mode to AUTO
instead of LBA? Does WinXP Pro have some sort of anti-cloning provision that
prevents HDD upgrade? Do I need an updated BIOS from Unicore?

 

[Plato]

The 6GB (WinXP Pro FAT32) HDD in my computer is old and has signs of
impending failure, so I need to replace it with an upgraded one immediately.
The replacement IDE HDD that I purchased is 120GB, so I had to jumper it for
32GB in order for the last revision of BIOS (1998) to detect it. I set the
translation mode

Are you planning on keeping your drive at 32gig due to your bios
limitation or are you
trying to use the entire 120 gig?