I used the Western Digital Drive 2 Drive clone tool through windows. It copied all but 3 files from my failing drive to my new one, which the Western Digital prog said were not needed in order for the operating system to run. So I turn off pc, remove failing hard drive, change jumpers on new one, and set new one to main. Start up my pc, windows xp loads, and the logon screen comes up. I enter my username/password, and then it says Loading Users Settings...then it just stays on that and keeps loading...doing nothing. So, obviously something is missing. How can I fix this? Should I just wipe the new drive and try again? Any help is appreciated, I need it for tomorrow. (im back on my old, quickly dieing drive) Thanks for the help in advance!!

No need to wipe out the HDD, just do a repair install of XP http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm Asus A7N8X-X 2500+ Sempron @ 2100mhz 10.5 x 200mhz @ 1.80v 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB