Re: How to install XP on an external USB tray/enclosure before using Ghost to clone?

Did you go into the bios and check that it was seeing the new drive, some of those Dells are finicky
about drive changes. You may have to set up the new size for your drive in the BIOS.
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

"Paul Soderman" <kidpocono@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Add the new drive as an internal drive and boot with ghost CD or
floppies. Run ghost to clone new drive, remove old drive and set up
new one in its place and then
boot off of it. "

My problem with this was that I tried doing just that a week or so ago,
after using Ghost to clone the old disc to the new one which was in the
USB external. I figured that after creating a perfect clone of the old
disc, I'd just install it in place of the old one and boot away. This,
however, didn't work out, as I kept getting the message "Windows could
not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk
configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional
information."

I don't know why anything more would be needed to get the disk, which
supposedly is a clone of what was being used to boot the Dell in the
first place, to start up the computer this way! Someone had suggested
using the XP disc on the new drive before Ghost, that is why I tried
this.



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