System restore fails after new hard drive install

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Koko

I recently purchased a new hard drive, 80GB Maxtor
DiamondMax plus 9, ATA 133 7200 rpm. Maxtor provides S/W
to do a drive to drive copy. After completing the drive to
drive copy, and installing the new drive as the master, I
ran into a problem. I noticed that the Windows XP "System
Restore" tool does not work. When it is selected it
creates a error report to send to Microsoft. Since this
isn't working I worry that something else might be wrong.
Also, just to make sure it wasn't the Maxtor S/W, I used
PowerQuest Deploy Center to create an image of my original
hard drive, then restore the image to the new drive, and I
received the same errors. The drive is recognized O.K.
size etc., and other utilities work great, the
windows/emachine help, surfing the web, my TV tuner, DVD
s/w, etc.. The windows version, I believe, is XP SP1. Any
help would be very appreciated.
 
Koko,
Had to reply, even though I can't help...but I have
exactly the same problem...and with a Maxtor drive (not
the problem I believe), but there appears little help on
the web anywhere for this.
 
I was able to get around this system restore problem by
disabling system restore before doing the disk copy. Then
after the disk copy, and reconfiguring the new drive as
the master, enable system restore. After this system
restore doesn't crash. However, after the disk copy, the
restore points are not retained. Once the new drive was
up, I created a restore point and went from there.
 
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