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.