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Need help getting contents of one drive moved to another

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MrBond

Diamond Member
I recieved a 40gb drive for christmas, given the age of my current drive, I decided to ghost everything from the old drive to the new. I ghosted the OS partition (windows xp pro) to the new drive, then tried to boot. I didn't expect it to, so I went into the system recovery console and did a 'fixmbr' and a 'fixboot c' to get the mbr and the boot sectors going. Still won't boot (at the point where it normally would load the OS, it says "press any key to reboot"). I went through WinXP's setup and repaired the installation, still no go. In the past, with Win98 machines, I always ghosted the OS partition, then just reinstalled Win98. It doesn't seem that simple in XP.

I've got the drives setup as follows.

Primary Master: New drive
Secondary Master: 5GB drive (storage)
Secondary Slave: Old drive

What do I need to do get booting again?
 
Just reinstall spamming XP, I'd rather not have my hard drive cluttered with useless stuff and ghost drivers. Copy your old harddrive to another comp or burn the stuff on a cd-r or rw and then when you reinstall XP, just copy the stuff back. Piece of cake...
 
It's a fairly clean install though, I didn't think it'd be nessecary to format/reinstall just yet.

My drive is partioned into 4 parts. The OS has its own partition, so I can format/reinstall with little headache. But it's still a headache 😉. Any other options?
 
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