Re: System hangs at 1st Welcome Screen

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From: ~~Alan~~ (alan.shepro_NOSPAM_at_verizon.net)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:55:16 -0500

Well, I ended up having to rebuild the system.

What I should have done was to upgrade the 1st disk and rebooted to let the
system see the new larger disk and after it was satisfied, upgrade the 2nd
HDD to what was the original C: drive. My guess is that even though I
"Ghosted" or cloned the disks, some data label was still hanging around that
confused the system into thinking there were 2 C: drives and after doing a
repair install, on the new 40GB drive, dates were compared and the HDD with
the OS on it became D: while the original HDD remained C:

Any thoughts,

~Alan

"~~Alan~~" <alan.shepro_NOSPAM@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:edooRBUAEHA.3048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I just upgraded a C: drive from a 10GB to a 40 GB using Ghost and then
> replaced the D: drive with that 10GB drive from a 5 GB.
>
> When the system boots now, it hangs at the 1st Welcome screen, the one
> before any accounts are seen. Now since I only have one account, I really
> do not know if it is hanging where I just said it was or if it is hanging
as
> it tries to auto-login the user..
>
> I can boot from a CD and using a tool called ERD commander, I can see the
> two HDDs and can verify the data on the disks.
>
> Help me please. I do not want to have to rebuild my system.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Alan
>
>
>
>

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