Imaged hard drive won't boot

[Guest]

I have a 60GB hard drive and bought a 160GB drive.
I used the Western digital imaging program that came with the new drive.
When I substitute the new drive for the old XP starts to boot and then hangs
with Windows on the screen. Can anyone help?

The BIOS does recognizes the drive.

 

[David H. Lipman]

The following would have to have been done PRIOR to imaging the XP system

48bit LBA in WinXP -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Dave




| I have a 60GB hard drive and bought a 160GB drive.
| I used the Western digital imaging program that came with the new drive.
| When I substitute the new drive for the old XP starts to boot and then hangs
| with Windows on the screen. Can anyone help?
|
| The BIOS does recognizes the drive.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| I have a 60GB hard drive and bought a 160GB drive.
| I used the Western digital imaging program that came with the new drive.
| When I substitute the new drive for the old XP starts to boot and then hangs
| with Windows on the screen. Can anyone help?
|
| The BIOS does recognizes the drive.

 

[Guest]

I have no need for repair install. My system is working. I wanted to be
able to image my system for backup purposes and then, if my hard drive fails
be able to substitute the 2nd hard drive and be back in operation.

 

[Guest]

I took care of this before imaging. That was not my problem. I wanted to be
able to image my system for backup purposes and then, if my hard drive fails
be able to substitute the 2nd hard drive and be back in operation.

 

[Chuck]

Even though the image is the same, the hard drives are not. You don't
suppose that you are running afoul of windows XP Anti-this and that schemes?
(Hence the repair windows recommendation from Carey)

I have no need for repair install. My system is working. I wanted to be
able to image my system for backup purposes and then, if my hard drive
fails
be able to substitute the 2nd hard drive and be back in operation.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| I have a 60GB hard drive and bought a 160GB drive.
| I used the Western digital imaging program that came with the new
drive.
| When I substitute the new drive for the old XP starts to boot and then
hangs
| with Windows on the screen. Can anyone help?
|
| The BIOS does recognizes the drive.

 

[Leythos]

Even though the image is the same, the hard drives are not. You don't
suppose that you are running afoul of windows XP Anti-this and that schemes?
(Hence the repair windows recommendation from Carey)

If he was using FAT32 for the boot partition it may not work if he's
increased it beyond 32GB. Even though he had a 60GB drive, many vendors
are shipping those systems with a 15GB partition and another of the
remaining space.

A disk to disk clone with resizing, where the boot part if FAT32 is
often the reason for that type of failure.

 

[Guest]

I used Norton Ghost and it did exactly what I wanted.

 

[Art]

I have a 60GB hard drive and bought a 160GB drive.
I used the Western digital imaging program that came with the new drive.
When I substitute the new drive for the old XP starts to boot and then
hangs
with Windows on the screen. Can anyone help?

The BIOS does recognizes the drive.

map444:
It's not uncommon that the disk imaging program that the hard drive
manufacturer provides doesn't do what it's supposed to do, at least the
first time. Give it another shot or even two. There's no reason why you
can't clone the contents of your old drive to your new one and have the new
one boot straightaway. I assume you don't have another disk imaging program,
e.g., Ghost or Acronis True Image available, but if you do, try one of
those.
Art

 

[Alex Nichol]

The following would have to have been done PRIOR to imaging the XP system

48bit LBA in WinXP -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Even then I would not trust an imaging program that may be file oriented
and trying to expand an original 28 bit LBA partition onto a 48 bit
disk. There are third party cloning tools (I'd use BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full Functional trial)
which will make an exact clone