I recently upgraded my harddrive for my laptop and used power quest drive image to make a bootable copy of my smaller drive to the larger drive. Then when I attempt to put the new harddrive in the laptop it will appear to boot normal but when it gets to the blue windows xp screen where you would usually select the user to sign on as, the computer freezes and there are no users to select from. Any suggestions?
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Try Safe Mode (Do you have this problem in Safe Mode?).
Your drive manufacturer will have free diagnostic software to thoroughly check your drive out for errors. They should also have free software for copying an old drive to a new drive, this may be a better solution than general third party software.
You could also try the Recovery Console, look at the commands like BootCfg, FixMbr, FixBoot and ChkDsk /r. Use it (More/Type command) to examine the Boot.ini file and make sure it is pointing to the correct boot partition?
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If they don't work you could try repairing windows by running it over itself. You will lose all your windows updates but your files will be untouched.
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Your drive manufacturer will have free diagnostic software to thoroughly check your drive out for errors. They should also have free software for copying an old drive to a new drive, this may be a better solution than general third party software.
You could also try the Recovery Console, look at the commands like BootCfg, FixMbr, FixBoot and ChkDsk /r. Use it (More/Type command) to examine the Boot.ini file and make sure it is pointing to the correct boot partition?
A Discussion About the Bootcfg Command and Its Uses
HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console for Windows XP (Q307654)
How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP (Q314079)
Q305595 - HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
If they don't work you could try repairing windows by running it over itself. You will lose all your windows updates but your files will be untouched.
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP (Q315341)
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can it be an issue where the new drive is labeld drive E and the old drive is C so when I try to boot the new drive all the boot files are looking for C:....files but they don't exist if so how do I change the drive letters, or paths, etc. to fix
tekuser999
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dkel22,
I don't think it's the problem with the drive letter. Did you transferred the image to the new drive and then put it into the laptop?
If so, try put the drive into the laptop first before transferring the image.
It happened to me once, I reimaged a drive on the secondary ide channel and then put it to the primary ide, it didn't boot, then I connected it to the primary ide and then imaged it and it booted.
Might be worth a try.
I don't think it's the problem with the drive letter. Did you transferred the image to the new drive and then put it into the laptop?
If so, try put the drive into the laptop first before transferring the image.
It happened to me once, I reimaged a drive on the secondary ide channel and then put it to the primary ide, it didn't boot, then I connected it to the primary ide and then imaged it and it booted.
Might be worth a try.
How are you saving your image and how are you putting the image on the new HD ? I ask because I just had a similar problem with a 98Se XP Pro dual boot. I was trying to make a image because I had 10 new PC's to load that was all the same. The 98 worked ok but the XP would hang just before the log on screen both in normal boot and Safe mode boot. I traced my problem to the fact that I was using Bert Pe with Ghost 8 Corp. using a USB HD to save the image what Bert Pe was doing was assigning the USB HD to D: and pushing the XP to E: So when the image was loaded on a new PC XP was loading as E: but the XP registry pointers was pointing to XP and all installed programs being on D:. A work around for me was to reboot with out the USB HD after imaging the HD and ghosting the XP partition and saving the image to the 98 partition. So after loading the disk image from the USB HD onto a new PC I rebooted with out the USB HD and ghost the XP partition from the 98 partition to partition D: and all was ok.
This could be only a problem because I was doing a dual boot.
This could be only a problem because I was doing a dual boot.
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unfortunately I am using a laptop and an external drive enclosure to do the disk image using powerquest disk image. So I don't think it is possible for me to load the pc with the new disk drive and then transfer the image from the USB drive since I can't boot the new harddrive
I have never used powerquest disk image so can't help there. Been using ghost now for probably 15 years or so. I have tried loading a image to a USB HD drive using ghost and could never get them to boot. I have done several laptops, the one I am using now I replaced the 40g HD, 2 partitions with a 80g with 2 partitions. I had no trouble. But I was booting Bart Pe from CD and ghosting the 40g HD to USB HD then just removed the old 40g and put the new 80g in an reboot Bart Pe from CD and ghosted the image back to the new 80g HD and all worked fine. I used partition magic to resize the partitions after I was done. I have done 4 or 5 laptops that way with no troubles.
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