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.

 

[BlueWeasel]

What version of Ghost are you using? Could that be the problem?

 

[GoingUp]

2003

 

[NumbaJuan]

Wow, that is pretty strange. I have ghosted quite a few drives and have never had a boot problem. The image you are ghosting should be an exact image of the drive that you are using now, just a bigger HD. If both drives are still in the system you may want to disconnect the old one & try booting with just the newly ghosted drive attached. If that doesn?t work try the ghost process again.

 

[LED]

Are you moveing from PATA to SATA on the HD's?...if so you need to load the SATA Drivers on the PATA then copy...

 

[GoingUp]

only parallel ATA hard drives and its the only drive plugged in right now and it still wont boot.

 

[LED]

See if you are using The Mobo's latest BIOS and check the jumpers...plus I would use the Maxblast tools to copy.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: LED
See if you are using The Mobo's latest BIOS and check the jumpers...plus I would use the Maxblast tools to copy.

but the images I have stored are compressed ghost images.

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs

Originally posted by: LED
See if you are using The Mobo's latest BIOS and check the jumpers...plus I would use the Maxblast tools to copy.

but the images I have stored are compressed ghost images.

No matters as you still have the old data in tact correct?...If so then delete the Ghost image and copy and that is if you 1st can get the new HD to work...did you check the jumpers and how about the ATA/100/133 cable as it has to be hooked up correctly (Blue to Mobo)

 

[NumbaJuan]

You may want to boot from the Win XP cd & try the repair option..? Just a thought.

 

[GoingUp]

I got a new hard drive and then I ghosted it using ghost drive instead of ghost partition. Everything now works 😀