Old and New Hard Drives

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I seriously need some help. I'm trying to change out my hard drives and
everything was working great while I was copying the files from the old drive
to the new drive. When I tried to boot up with the new drive, I couldn't get
past the Windows' title screen. I tried to see if my old drive would work
and found out that it was doing the same thing. What is going on? I need
some help badly.
Thanks,
Brad
 
Brad said:
I seriously need some help. I'm trying to change out my hard drives and
everything was working great while I was copying the files from the old
drive
to the new drive. When I tried to boot up with the new drive, I couldn't
get
past the Windows' title screen. I tried to see if my old drive would work
and found out that it was doing the same thing. What is going on? I need
some help badly.
Thanks,
Brad
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Hi, Brad. I just posted a topic here about the method that I use quite
successfully to make bootable clone image copies of drive C:. Subject of
that post of today is "TIP: How I make a bootable HDD image copy".

I've a few questions to ask before I can anwer you intelligently. How big is
the new drive, what brand is it, and exactly what method did you use to make
the bootable HDD copy? Be detailed in your response, please! No HDD
manufacture provided utility that I know of will modify the original source
drive during a disk copy session. So I'm genuinely wondering how your source
drive (C:) managed to get into the state that it is now in.

Meanwhile, you can try this for your old C: drive. Boot to the same XP CD
type (Home or Pro, and the same version such as SP1 or SP2) that was used to
install XP. Choose very carefully to only use the Recovery Console and
nothing else.

At the dosbox prompt that you end up with, remove the XP CD from the drive
and then type these commands:

chkdsk /R
exit

It could take many hours for that above procedure to finish, but probably
will take less than 30 minutes. If that doesn't end up fixing the boot
problem and you can not boot into any type of Safe Mode then a reinstall of
XP might end up being necessary, using only the exact same XP installation
CD and key as was used for the original installation of XP (else a lockout
could result). As long as the original install of XP was legit and you use
the correct XP CD, then you will not loose anything but you'd have to do all
Microsoft website provide updates again.
 
Brad said:
I seriously need some help. I'm trying to change out my
hard drives and everything was working great while I was
copying the files from the old drive to the new drive.
When I tried to boot up with the new drive, I couldn't get
past the Windows' title screen. I tried to see if my old
drive would work and found out that it was doing the
same thing. What is going on? I need some help badly.
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What utility were you using to do the copying?
Did you tell the utility to copy to a primary partition?
(This is necessary if the clone is to be bootable.)
Did you tell the utility to make the clone partition "active"?
(This is necessary if the clone system is to be able
to load itself via its own ntldr and boot.ini file.)
Did you tell the utility to copy over the Master Boot Record, too?
(This is necessary if the clone hard drive is to be bootable.)
After the copying and before the 1st attempt to boot the
new clone system, did you disconnect either the
power cable or the data cable from the original
hard drive?
(This is necessary to keep the clone from setting
links to system files in the original system. Once
it has been started up once in isolation from its
"parent", it becomes independent for boot-ups
with its "parent" visible.)

*TimDaniels*
 
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