WXP will not start after harddrive recovery

[Guest]

I have just restored a drive image using Drive Image 7 (by now defunct
Powerquest).

I can see the image when I run the drive as a slave but when I try to boot
my PC with the drive, I only see the bios prompts (which I am able to get
into and out of bios setup) and then I see a cursor on a black screen. The
cursor blinks a couple of times then moves to the line below and then hangs
up. I never get to the windows xp logo part of the boot.

I think it has something to do with the boot.ini but all seems OK.

Original image was from a drive with two partitions, new drive has only one
but I did edit the boot ini:

Original Boot.ini with two partitions:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center
Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

This is how ini looks now:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center
Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

Please help!

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [SPECOjim]s message :
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I think it has something to do with the boot.ini but all seems OK.

Then boot with XP Setup Disk > Recovery Console
bootcfg /rebuild

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [SPECOjim]s message :
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I tried to run the recovery console. The WXP CD boots fine and and sees the
OS I want to boot to. When I select it, it asks me for a password. I know
that I never set an administrator password for windows but it tells me that
the password is incorrect. Is the password that the recovery console is
looking for different from the windows admin password? Does it work if
there is no password?

This is an HP media center system that came preinstalled. I don't have any
WXP discs for it.

It is asking for the password of the built-in Administrator account. If you never set
one, then it should be empty.

If that fails, then plug the hard disk in another computer and edit the boot.ini.