Drive-Drive copy w/Ghost, boot hangs

My current system is: SATA, C: (primary, active), D: (primary)

I have a new (larger) SATA drive (one primary and one extended partition) which I'm trying to copy my system to w/Ghost.

When I copy over the two partitions, marking the new system partition as active, my machine hangs after the WinXP splash screen. I get a blue screen with a small Windows logo; the same one that appears for a few moments on a working system once someone has entered a logon password. In this case, however, it jumps to this screen from the WinXP splash screen and just stays there.

I should add that this is what happens when the original drive is disconnected. If I leave it connected, WinXP boots from the new drive (G:) and continues to reference D: on the old drive. Therefore, this problem seems to be related to the way drive letters are assigned.

This always used to work before, so I'm puzzled as to why I'm having trouble now.

Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm thinking I should backup to an external USB drive and restore C/D to the new hard drive using Ghost from CD, but I'd like to understand why that might be required.
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