I'm having a problem with a new hard drive I got. It's an 80GB WD Caviar with a partition at 10GB. The drive I'm replacing is a 10GB Maxtor. I used Symantec Ghost to copy over my boot drive. When I use the new hard drive, the computer will freeze at the login screen (after the splash screen with the XP logo and the moving bar), where it normally would say WELCOME. The XP logo will fade in, and then nothing will happen. I can still move the mouse, but nothing responds. The same thing happens when I try to boot into safe mode. When I set up my old drive as the master and set the new one to slave, it will boot just fine. I can see the partition in windows, too. All the files appear to be the same on the new and old boot drives. I tried Recovery Console from the WinXP boot CD, but after I selected my drive, it asked for a Admin password. I didn't make a password when I installed windows, so I just hit enter. It then shows me C:\Windows>_ and doesn't do anything. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Jared

Two things I can think of . Has the new drive partitioned / formatted & set to Active ? Windows doesn't deal with disks over 64gb, without this patch http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q263044& This patch allows fdisk to "see" larger drives.

In ghost did you clone disk to disk or partition to partition? You must do the disk to disk clone to be bootable.

Ah, that could be it. I used Partition to Partition when I did the clone. If I do the disk to disc method, the 80GB HD will be wiped clean, correct? The reason I'm asking is because I grabbed the hard drive from another one of my computers, and there's still information on the second partition that I would like to keep. Any way around this?

Yes, disk to disk will clone the disk and even repartition it relative to the size on the original. You can burn the data to a cd or dvd or another hd.

I got the same problem but none of the solutions work. I have 2 OS's installed on the drive but when i run XP it freezes at login screen. When i run x64 version IT BOOTS perfectly all the way. I can even use IE and other apps. But i want XP 32 bit not 64bit. PLease help i used Norton ghost too. Cloned the drive to drive.

All I can suggest is a google search . XP 32 bit not 64bit http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=XP+32+bit+not+64bit&btnG=Google+Search&meta=