Upgrade HD Woes

[jimbo]

I am totally bummed out. I have WinXP Home SP1 on a 40 GB hard drive "C"
and a second 200 GB hard drive as slave "D". I want to upgrade the 40 GB
hard drive to a new 200 GB hard drive. Easy, I thought. Just remove the
IDE ribbon cable connector from the existing 200 GB drive, connect the
new 200 GB drive and use Ghost 2003 to clone the 40 GB WinXP drive to
the new 200 GB drive. Then just remove the existing 40 GB WinXP drive
and install the new 200 GB drive in the master position. (I have done
this before with a second 40 GB drive that I have. The clone has always
booted to my WinXP with no problems.) Yeah, right.

The system appears to be booting OK, but after the WinXP splash screen,
instead of the expected blue welcome screen, I get a blue death screen
that flashes by so fast I can't read it and then the system reboots.

I booted from the WinXP installation CD to the repair option and
executed fixmbr and fixboot. That didn't help, still the same blue
screen of death and a reboot. So another boot from the installation CD
to the repair option and I looked at bootcfg /list and it shows Windows
on drive 1 as expected. So another boot from the installation CD and to
the installation option where I thought there would be a repair
installation option. But there is no repair installation option, just a
full installation. I am stumped.

Is there any way to get a clone of my 40 GB WinXP drive onto a 200 GB
drive and have it boot to WinXP? I really don't want to do a complete
installation of WinXP, install all of my applications, etc. again.

Thanks for any and all help.

jimbo

 

[Guest]

You've managed most of the task successfully, but there is one additional step.

As the size / model / type of HDD are changed, then after using Ghost you
need to run a repair installation, not just fix MBR.

Boot off the Windows CD, when you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen, you
will see the options below:
This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft Windows XP to run on
your computer:

To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.

To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.

To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.

Press Enter to start the Windows Setup.

Accept the License Agreement and Windows will search for existing Windows
installations.

Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list and press R to
start the repair.

Setup will copy the necessary files to the hard drive and reboot. Do not
press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Setup will continue
as if it were doing a clean install, but your applications and settings will
remain intact.

 

[jimbo]

Thanks for your reply, direct and helpful.

The first time through, before my appeal for help and your reply, I
thought I had followed the correct sequence, but when I got to the
second page where you select the XP installation, there wasn't a repair
option. (At least that is what I remember.)

Anyway, the second time through the procedure, everything went as
expected and I am now typing this reply with my new 200 GB hard drive,
WinXP installation. What relief!

Thanks very much for the helpful reply. jimbo