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Win XP Pro...Hard drive swap help ASAP!

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I hope someone can help me figure this out. I purchased one of the Western Digital 80giggers than OM has on sale this week to replace my 40gig IBM today. I installed the drive as a slave and ran Ghost to clone the IBM onto the WD. Everything seemed to go great, I rebooted into windows and the new drive had all the information the IBM did. I powered the computer down, removed the IBM and set the WD as master (since its he only HD in the system). Windowds boots up fine, however once I reach the blue log on screen, nothing happens. I can move the cursor, but I dont get a working desktop loaded. After trying several times, I rebooted into safe mode, and upon loading windows, I get a pop up box informing me that a problem prevented windows from verify's the computers identity. If you click ok, it keeps comming back, and you cannot do anything else. The only thing I can think of is the stupid copy protection kicking in, and if that is it, does anyone have any ideas? I really want to get this sloved ASAP.


Thanks,
Josh
 
One of the drives I have cant be set to "master" with the jumper on the drive if it is the "only" drive. Doubt that is your problem but I thought it was worth a shot.

There is a possible problem with having 2 versions of the registry present at the same time. I read somewhere, and I cant remember where, that you have to be carefull when ghosting a new boot drive and haveing it on the system at the same time as the "current" boot drive. When the OS sees the duplicate registry it resets one or both of them. That could cause quite a problem.

I dont think that it is copy protection. If the rest of the machine is excatly the same then changing a drive shouldnt be a problem with activation.

Im not sure if ghosting from the smaller IBM to the larger WD could have induced a problem as long as its still on the same controller.

 
What version of Ghost? I think 2K3 was the first version to properly support XP.

Also, when you do the ghost, don't boot off the original drive again, that is likely when the identification on the HD was changed. After the ghost, immediately swap the drives and boot off the new drive.

Beyond that, there shouldn't be any issues. I've ghosted dozens of XP installs with Ghost 2k3 without any problems.


j

 
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I used Ghost 2003, but I did indeed boot off the orginal drive as well. sv650dave, thanks for the idea but there was no jumper installed on the drive once I removed the orginal. I am going to try the western digital software and see if that will fix the problem.
 
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