RE: Booting XP Home SP2 from NEW HD - diskcopy using Norton Ghost

From: Mark (Mark_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:19:02 -0700

Just tried F* to safe mode as well as to last good configuration. No help.

"Mark" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on my daughter's Gateway PC (2 MHZ, 40GB WesternDigital HD)- had
> been very slow. Norton Benchmark tests were all OK with the exception of all
> of the HD tests (benchmark machine was 800 to 1200% faster). Purchased new
> 80 GB Maxtor HD tonight, formatted using XPSP2 NTFS on old disk and used
> Norton Ghost to copy old disk to new - copying boot sectors and making active
> as well. Old drive is disconnected and new is set as master and conncted to
> cable master connection. New drive boots into XP, but has blue screen with
> XP logo, does not go to log-on screen. Is there something else I need to do?
> Don't want to reinstall XP as I had just finished reinstalling XP on the old
> drive a few days ago and downloading and installing SP2 using dialup thinking
> this might solve speed problem. There were no other indications of a bad
> disk.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Mark