Cloning hard drive problem

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:03:02 -0700, Bill Rush
<BillRush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Yikes! My C drive washowing SMART status :bad, so I used Norton Ghost 9.0 to
>clone the c drive to a slave drive. The cloning showed successful. I
>reconfigured that drive as the only drive and it boots to the finalk XP
>screen, but where it normally has my two users to log on, it has the XP
>background but no user choices and so it won't boot all the way. Now, the
>old C drive has stoped working all together so I really nned this clone drive
>to work. I have an XP Pro disk that does not include SP 2. I loaded XP on
>yet another drive so I could get to the interent. When I set up the cloned
>drive as a slave, I can see all the files and can open them all except "my
>documents which says "access denied". Also, ant suggestions about what may
>be blocking that access. What I really need is to get that cloned drive to
>operate as the main drive. My old C drive was updated to sp2. All drives are
>Western degital. Bios setting see the drives. Thanks
Did you set it to auto logon? If so, boot your cloned drive C (
configured as master ) into safe mode. You will see a user
Administrator in the welcome screen. Logon (hope you remember your
administrator password) as the administrator and recreate anew user
account.
Pls report back progress.