ghosted drive hangs at desktop

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XPsp1, ghost 2003
Hard drive upgrade gone awry. Made and moved the image to new drive
boot partition. Pulled the old drive. But when I boot I get the usual
post, XP load to password but when the desktop load- no icons, no
taskbar, no OS, no joy. On the 3rd boot I got a MS message about
"something is causing a problem with the licensing etc". Don't
remember the wording but it never came up on subsequent reboots.
What could the matter be? Thanks.
 
XPsp1, ghost 2003
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Hard drive upgrade gone awry. Made and moved the image
to new drive boot partition. Pulled the old drive. But when I
boot I get the usual post, XP load to password but when the
desktop load- no icons, no taskbar, no OS, no joy. On the
3rd boot I got a MS message about "something is causing
a problem with the licensing etc". Don't remember the
wording but it never came up on subsequent reboots.
What could the matter be? Thanks.
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The usual reason for the new drive not booting with ghost 2003
is that you didnt do the clone properly. Its absolutely crucial that
XP cant see both the old and new hard drives on the first boot
after the new drive has had the data copied to it from the old one.

The easiest way to ensure that is to use ghost off the boot floppy,
because then it stops once the data is copied to the new drive.
Just physically unplug the old drive before booting the new one.
XP will say it finds new hardware and ask to be allowed to reboot.
Allow that and it should boot fine.

Once that has happened, you can connect the old drive again if you want to.
 
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