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XP doesn't boot from new SATA drive

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Dave34_09   08-04-2009 at 11:58:15 PM

I had problems replacing my nearly full PATA 160 GB hard drive with a new larger 1 TB SATA drive. I used HDClone 3.7 to clone the old to the new drive. When I disconnected the old drive, XP would not start-up. I tried installing SATA driver for without success, the BIOS detects the drive OK. So I connected both drives and XP started with errors. Looking at My Computer the new drive was C: and the old drive was F: Now XP doesn't boot from my previous old drive alone because it has changed from C: to F:. How can I get either drive to boot up?

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number13   08-05-2009 at 04:55:11 PM
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see if you can make the drive "active" that you want to boot from, next time that you try that with Ghost let it finish the cloning process

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