Cannot boot XP from my new SATA II HD ...... Help....!

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boy

Hi,

I formatted my new SATA II Hard Drive.
I gave it letter "K" (Active).
I copied my old SATA Hard Drive "C" to the new SATA II Hard Drive
using Norton Ghost. This also included the drivers.
I disconnected my old HD and connected the new one instead.
When I starded booting, BIOS recognized my new HD, and it was placed
in exactly the same booting order as my old HD.

But I can not get past Blue XP screen. Any advise......?


Thanks, Boy.
 
Hi,

I formatted my new SATA II Hard Drive.
I gave it letter "K" (Active).
I copied my old SATA Hard Drive "C" to the new SATA II Hard Drive
using Norton Ghost. This also included the drivers.
I disconnected my old HD and connected the new one instead.
When I starded booting, BIOS recognized my new HD, and it was placed
in exactly the same booting order as my old HD.

But I can not get past Blue XP screen.   Any advise......?

Thanks, Boy.
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How was this copy (aka clone) done? You may need to use a different
software since there has been several posts stating this exact problem
that Ghost cause.
 
How was this copy (aka clone) done?  You may need to use a different
software since there has been several posts stating this exact problem
that Ghost cause.
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Yes, I did copy the entire HD including Drivers. Norton Ghost has this
option, and it was recommended by several people for cloning HD.

Gee, I spent $35 on this software.

Thanks, though I hope maybe somebody has a different advise.

Boy.
 
boy said:
Yes, I did copy the entire HD including Drivers. Norton Ghost has this
option, and it was recommended by several people for cloning HD.

Gee, I spent $35 on this software.

Thanks, though I hope maybe somebody has a different advise.

Boy.
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What is the blue screen error message?

There are differences between copying, drive imaging and cloning.
Only a properly cloned hard drive would be bootable after it replaces
the original from which it was cloned. Some computers require the bios
to do a new physical HD check, especially if the old and new HD's are
different. In bios setup, re-autodetect and recheck the entries for
the new HD.
 
boy said:
Hi,

I formatted my new SATA II Hard Drive.
I gave it letter "K" (Active).
I copied my old SATA Hard Drive "C" to the new SATA II Hard Drive
using Norton Ghost. This also included the drivers.
I disconnected my old HD and connected the new one instead.
When I starded booting, BIOS recognized my new HD, and it was placed
in exactly the same booting order as my old HD.

But I can not get past Blue XP screen. Any advise......?


Thanks, Boy.
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What version of Ghost did you use?
 
What version of Ghost did you use?
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Great thanks to you all for trying helping me out.

I just bough it last week, Norton Ghost 14.0. And I read some good
reviews about this product and even watched YouTube demonstration on
how to use it for replacing older HD.

The Blue XP screen has no messages. Just says "windows XP" and
freezes, and if my HD worked properly in about 3 seconds I would see
another Blue Screen - "Welcome to XP" and shortly after that the
Desktop would appear.

My HP Pavillion is about 2 years old, 1 gb RAM, 250 gb SATA HD.


Boy.
 
boy said:
Hi,

I formatted my new SATA II Hard Drive.
I gave it letter "K" (Active).
I copied my old SATA Hard Drive "C" to the new SATA II Hard Drive
using Norton Ghost. This also included the drivers.
I disconnected my old HD and connected the new one instead.
When I starded booting, BIOS recognized my new HD, and it was placed
in exactly the same booting order as my old HD.

But I can not get past Blue XP screen. Any advise......?


Thanks, Boy.
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First off, there was not need to format or assign a drive letter.

Did you simply copy the files

or did you actually use the clone option

You should have used the clone option ( I don't know what terminology is
actually used)
 
boy said:
Great thanks to you all for trying helping me out.

I just bough it last week, Norton Ghost 14.0. And I read some good
reviews about this product and even watched YouTube demonstration on
how to use it for replacing older HD.

The Blue XP screen has no messages. Just says "windows XP" and
freezes,
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Here's an inexpensive thing to try that sometimes fixes this kind of
problem. Temporarily move the drive to another system (which could mean
booting off your old drive with the new one as a secondary drive).

With the drive attached, look in the root directory for "pagefile.sys" and
"hiberfil.sys", and delete them. Empty the wastebasket.

Now, shut down and swap the drives back. Start up again, perhaps in Safe
Mode. The system may appear to hang - leave it for a few minutes, power
down, and then restart again.

I've had this work for me several times.

What sometimes seems to happen is that if the pagefile is corrupted or
otherwise invalid, the system won't start. Removing this file will force
Windows to re-create a new one, though it doesn't seem to restart fully on
first boot after you've done this.

HTH
-pk
 
boy said:
I formatted my new SATA II Hard Drive.
I gave it letter "K" (Active).
I copied my old SATA Hard Drive "C" to the new SATA II Hard Drive
using Norton Ghost. This also included the drivers.
I disconnected my old HD and connected the new one instead.
When I starded booting, BIOS recognized my new HD, and it was placed
in exactly the same booting order as my old HD.

But I can not get past Blue XP screen. Any advise......?
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Assuming you did not clone the whole disk, which would include the
MBR sector, and copied the partition to the same location that you
had set up the K: drive, then Windows will still see this as K: and
not C:.

There is an explanation here:
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm

The easiest way to fix this would be to run a "fdisk /mbr" from a
Win9x/DOS boot floppy. (see Kawecki's trick at the end of the article)
You may have to ebable legacy support for the drive in the BIOS, so
that DOS can see the SATA drive. If you can't get DOS to see the disk,
you need to reclone, ensuring that it is the "whole" drive and not
just the partition that you are copying.
 
By any chance do you have an older version of XP, such as SP-1 or the
original? These were limited in their ability to deal with larger hard
drives. SP-2 and beyond should handle any drive currently available to the
public. If you have an older verison of XP and the new drive is larger than
about 127 Gig, re-install the old hard drive, upgrade to at least SP-2, if
not SP-3, then try the cloning again.

Please note the word "cloning", that is different than a simple copy. In
your case you should be doing a disk to disk clone (not a partition to
partition clone). Norton Ghost should be able to handle this.
 
Please note the word "cloning", that is different than a simple copy.  In
your case you should be doing a disk to disk clone (not a partition to
partition clone).  Norton Ghost should be able to handle this.
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Well, this is an interesting observation. My original HD is
partitioned. Partition C for windows and partition D for recovery. I
partitined the new HD also and copied partition to partition. Could
this have been my problem.....? How can I copy the entire HD..? Norton
Ghost seems to copy one partition at time, unless I am missing
something.


Thanks, Boy.
 
Well, this is an interesting observation. My original HD is
partitioned. Partition C for windows and partition D for recovery. I
partitined the new HD also and copied partition to partition. Could
this have been my problem.....? How can I copy the entire HD..? Norton
Ghost seems to copy one partition at time, unless I am missing
something.

Thanks, Boy.
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There is option for cloning whole drive, if you need it, or just the
partition. Just see did you used some back-up option witch works just
a copy, or cloning. And there is some stupidity about drive letters.
If new drive was connected and worked under windows, for that
partition on that disk windows assigned some letter (g:), and when you
boot win it loads loader, and then searches for files on c:....
but your drive is mapped as g: There is problem...
First - Do not format, partition, or assign drive letter for new drive
under win, or it will be remembered under that stupid letter! How o
avoid that NOW, when your drive was already connected... I hope that
someone knows. I need answer too.
 
Miske said:
There is option for cloning whole drive, if you need it, or just the
partition. Just see did you used some back-up option witch works just
a copy, or cloning. And there is some stupidity about drive letters.
If new drive was connected and worked under windows, for that
partition on that disk windows assigned some letter (g:), and when you
boot win it loads loader, and then searches for files on c:....
but your drive is mapped as g: There is problem...
First - Do not format, partition, or assign drive letter for new drive
under win, or it will be remembered under that stupid letter! How o
avoid that NOW, when your drive was already connected... I hope that
someone knows. I need answer too.
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Basically:

1. Don't let XP boot with the new drive connected before the cloning.
(yes, it's tempting to see if Windows recognizes the new drive beforehand)

2. Don't boot the clone with the old drive connected as slave, on the
first boot.

The surest solution is to wipe the clone, and start over following those
two rules.
 
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