New Hard drive wont boot.

[GoingUp]

So I got a 250GB hard drive. I wanted to make it my primary drive for booting in windows. I had a ghost image that I copied over from my 200GB hard drive. It contained my windows XP image for this system. The system will not boot. Upon trying to boot it tells me DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I know the disk works cause I can format it and partition it in windows. I just cant get it to boot at all. I tried the windows XP console with fixboot, mbrfix and bootcfg but I must be doing something wrong. What do I need to do to get this new partition on my new drive to boot?

Edit: Here is the error that I get. http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;326676
I can boot fine from my 8MB cache 200GB drive, but this new 250GB 16MB cache maxtor wont boot. I am using an Abit NF7 rev 2.0 motherboard.

 

[Farmer]

Check your boot order.

 

[JC]

Did you make the new partition active?

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: JC
Did you make the new partition active?

how do you do that?

I formatted the partition in windows as a primary partition with NTFS. I then ghosted onto that new partition.

I can get into c:\windows in the recovery console, but I cant get it to boot

 

[JC]

Fdisk will let you see if the partition is active, and activate it if necessary.