Re: Cloned Partition hangs on Welcome Screen

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Here are some additional thoughts as you seem to be getting some pretty good
advice already:

Did you check to ensure that the tiny connectors in the back of the hd is
set to either master, slave or something in the middle?

Also, when you use that ide ribbon cable, keep in mind that one of those
connectors is assigned for the master only. Don't recall what they are
called, but they are tiny little clips that connect/short tiny wires in the
back. You should have maybe 4 or 5 pairs of them.

So if you got the hd plug into the master connector, but the hd settings of
the back are set for slave, you will have a problem.... Double check,
because basically, if your new hd is installed as a master and the bios and
those little plugs/connectors are set as master, then installing windows
should be no problem. There could be a chance that both your hd's are set
as master, So check those little connectors in the back. Both hd's should
have a sticker on them indicating how to set them as either master or slave
or master/slave. If not, check out their parent website for this data...

Another problem is that you may have to make your partitions smaller. Some
motherboards can't handle big partitions. I suggest to make the main
partition the same size as the old harddrive you had, 40 gigabytes is good.
The others should be of equal size too. Later you can resize them with your
partitioning software...



"Pink Sparkle Girl" <mydeadbaby@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ODvhSpHxGHA.2204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, thanks for replying to my problem. I tried a repair install but it
just crashes when trying to boot (no matter how I tell it to boot up).
This is driving me crazy! I thought it would be nice and easy to simply
copy my XP partition onto a new HDD and then use it as either a backup or
master. I just don't understand why it doesn't work.

Before doing a repair install I found out that if both HDD's were
connected I could boot into the new one with no problem, but with only the
new one connected it would hang on the blue welcome screen. How come I
could boot into it one way, but not another?

I tried doing a repair install with only the new drive connected -
crashed. I tried doing a repair install with both drives connected - still
crashes.

I have just formatted the new HDD and think I will try a fresh install and
see if it boots up. Does it matter if I install Windows with the drive set
a slave if I decide to set it to master later? I noticed that when I
disconnected the original drive and set the clone to master the PC took
its time finding it.

Any advice most welcome.

Thanks, Sarah.



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