no boot after adding new hard drive

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I recently added a new hard drive as a slave, with the
previous drive as master as before. After cloning the
original drive to the new drive with Norton Ghost and
removing the old drive, the computer starts booting,
shows the XP logo, but never finishes booting. The same
thing happens when I try to boot to Safe Mode or to
Debugging mode. Any ideas, anyone?

Mark
 
I am having this exact same problem! I have a 40Gb IBM
deskstar Hd, bought a new Western Digital 80Gb drive. I
installed the 80gb, formatted it to NTFS and cloned it
using the Data Lifeguard tools that came with the drive.

I then swapped drives around with the new drive as the
master and when it booted it booted off the old drive.
After re-formatting the new drive and using Ghost 7.5 to
clone the drive it was doing the same thing. I then took
the slave off and set the new drive as single master, and
it now boots up to the blue WinXp Login screen, but there
are no logon buttons nor does it go any further.

I would love to know what is happening here.

I have an AMD XP1900, Soyo KT333, 1Gb PC2700, and the
aforementioned 40gb IBM and new 80Gb Western Digital
drives.

The old drive was set up as FAT32, but I converted it to
NTFS prior to installing and cloning the new drive.

The system sees the new drive placed in the master
location, it recognizes it in BIOS, and I can see all the
files that have been cloned. It just won't boot from
that drive when it is set up as a single drive.
 
eric freeland - typed:
I am having this exact same problem! I have a 40Gb IBM
deskstar Hd, bought a new Western Digital 80Gb drive. I
installed the 80gb, formatted it to NTFS and cloned it
using the Data Lifeguard tools that came with the drive.

I then swapped drives around with the new drive as the
master and when it booted it booted off the old drive.
After re-formatting the new drive and using Ghost 7.5 to
clone the drive it was doing the same thing. I then took
the slave off and set the new drive as single master, and
it now boots up to the blue WinXp Login screen, but there
are no logon buttons nor does it go any further.

I would love to know what is happening here.

I have an AMD XP1900, Soyo KT333, 1Gb PC2700, and the
aforementioned 40gb IBM and new 80Gb Western Digital
drives.

The old drive was set up as FAT32, but I converted it to
NTFS prior to installing and cloning the new drive.

The system sees the new drive placed in the master
location, it recognizes it in BIOS, and I can see all the
files that have been cloned. It just won't boot from
that drive when it is set up as a single drive.
Click to expand...

Sounds like you missed the important step of rebooting your new h/d
without the old one still attached, then booting with it attached
afterwards. I prefer to have a 2nd h/d formatted as an extended
partition without an active volume. Try removing the old drive &
rebooting.
See if this MS KB article helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q289/0/22.asp&NoWebContent=1
Same url:
http://tinyurl.com/f2u7
If you used the convert command to go from FAT to NTFS, check your
cluster size is the optimal 4k & not 512bytes! If it isn't, you will be
better off doing a fresh install using NTFS from the outset.
 
Boot from install CD. Go to recovery console (repair at first possible
place?). At prompt for which OS installation answer 1 and enter
At command prompt enter fixmbr (or fixboot). Try boot


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I tried the repair installation last night. I used the
FIXBOOT and FIXMBR on the new drive XP install and it said
that it had a non-standard MBR. I went through with the
fix and it said fix was successful.

Upon reboot it recognized the drive and began to load
windows, but stopped and hung at the Blue XP login screen
with no login buttons. I let it sit for a good 20 minutes
to see if it would go further but nothing...

Tonight I will check to see if both are formatted with the
same NTFS Byte size clusters.
Thanks
 
I got my drive working and you may want to try this.
I set up the New drive as my Master on Cable Select, with
the old drive as Slave.

I used the WD Data LifeGuard tools to format and
partition the drive into 2 partitions to fit my old
drives partitions on it. I then closed out DLG and
rebooted the machine with my MSDOS disk with Ghost on it.

When that booted I ran Ghost and cloned my old drive to
the new one. After finishing Ghost it prompted me to
reboot my system. Instead of booting straight away I
turned it off and disconnected my old drive leaving the
new 80gb WD as my Master on Cable Select. I then turned
my machine on and let it go through the boot cycle. It
booted into XP and appears to be working fine now.

The main thing is to not boot up the system after Ghostin
while both drives are installed. Format the new drive,
Clone, then turn off and disconnect the old drive. Then
boot normally and see if that works for you.

eric
 
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