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HELP NEEDED > Cloning Harddrives

pradeep1

Golden Member
I have a 75 GB WD Raptor that is dying on me with intermittent failures to boot, etc. It is the primary drive with Win XP SP3 installed on there.

So I purchased a 500 GB Seagate 7200.11 and used HDClone to clone the Raptor to the Seagate and then had HDClone resize the partition to 500 GB.

When I try to boot from the new Seagate, I get the NTLDR missing message.

So I booted into XP Recovery console and copied over the NTLDR files and the ntdetect.com to this new drive. I also made sure boot.ini was okay as well.

Yet, I still cannot get this new drive to boot Windows and keep getting the NTLDR missing.

This was a highly customized system and it will take me literally 5-6 hours to reinstall XP and get everything back to how it was.

Is there anything else I can do?

Your help is appreciated.
 
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