Hello, I have a 60 gig Seagate drive to which I copied the XP partitian from my old 10 gig drive. My problem is that the drive will boot up to the point where the XP Welcome logo appears. After that it just hangs and goes no further. I made sure that the jumpers on the drive were set to master and that the bios recognized the drive as the Master. But still no success. So I tried something. I reinstalled my old 10 gig, made it a slave to the 60 gig and to my surprise the PC booted into Windows just fine. But now I have two drives with the same exact image. In PC management it shows that both partitians are active. As you can imagine, I'm scared!!

Does anyone have an idea why the 60 gig which has the same exact XP image as my old drive, won't fully boot up on it's own?? ?:banghead:

Welcome to PCHF

It could be that something got corrupted with the image or the image transfer. Is there any way you can re-do the image transfer to the new hard drive AFTER re-formatting the drive?

Also, do you have an XP installation CD?

Thanks for the welcome.

And the answer is yes, I have both the XP boot Disks and an XP Installation CD. I've tried installing from scratch but I always got the error where several files could not be copied to the drive during installation and then it would bomb out. I cound't even format the drive using either XP or Windows 2000 Pro. I was able to format the drive using a setup utility provided by Seagate for setting up a new drive. But I was still unable to do a fresh install of an operating system. The only way I've been able to get the drive to work is to boot the PC with a Norton Ghost 7.5 boot disk and then use it to copy from the old drive to the new one. Do you think there could be something wrong with the boot sector of the new drive? And if so, is there a way to fix that portion of the drive? :banghead:

If there is a probelm with the boot sector you can use this

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Are the Cd's clean, somtimes all it takes is a wipe of the cloth. As for the Hard dirves, It might be a Microsoft thing, having 2 of the same inmages on the same pc? Never done it but it might be a problem, But run the nuke disk on the 60 gig it will clean up your boot sector if that is the problem

Thanks for the suggestion. You mentioned Nuke Disk. I don't think I've heard of that one. Is it like FDISK?

"Nuke" refers to the link provided above: Darik's Boot and Nuke

Well in a way it is. But it is alot stronger, I would only suggest the once over with it as the gutman will take (on a 60 gig hd) about 24 to 36 hours maybe longer. The once over will take about4 hours so be ready. It will fix bad sectors and boot problems though.