XP Home will not boot on new hard drive

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I have copied the contents of my 40 g hard drive to a newly formatted 120 g
hard drive using the disk copy function in Ghost v9.0. I then disconnected
the 40 g hard drive and set the pin on the 120 g as master. When I start up
XP appears to be booting up but then stops with the blue bordered screen with
the XP logo on it. I have tried putting my XP Home edition CD in the cd
drive while starting but get the same result. I spoke to Microsoft Support
but they told me that I should speak to Norton. That does not appear to be
an option. Any help appreciated.

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Hi Carey,
I guess that you are telling me that I must do the XP Repair Install? I
wish there was some other way around it.
Thanks for your help.


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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> Windows XP - Shell/User
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> Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
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> "tonyb" wrote:
>
> | I have copied the contents of my 40 g hard drive to a newly formatted 120 g
> | hard drive using the disk copy function in Ghost v9.0. I then disconnected
> | the 40 g hard drive and set the pin on the 120 g as master. When I start up
> | XP appears to be booting up but then stops with the blue bordered screen with
> | the XP logo on it. I have tried putting my XP Home edition CD in the cd
> | drive while starting but get the same result. I spoke to Microsoft Support
> | but they told me that I should speak to Norton. That does not appear to be
> | an option. Any help appreciated.
>
>