XP-Installation got confused after 1:1 HD-Copy

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I recently bought a S-ATA-Disk. To test it, I did a 1:1-Copy of my "old"
IDE-Disk with dd in Linux. When i bootet Windows the next time, it bootet
from the copied system-partition on the S-ATA disk; I didn't any changes in
the boot-manager and I booted from the IDE-disk like always. So I tried to
switch off the S-ATA disk. But XP doesn't boot nomore from the IDE-Disk, it
hangs on the Welcome-Screen. Seems it has confused partitions, maybe it has
to do with drive-letter-assignment? I'm not very happy about this and want
to "switch back" again!

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

>I recently bought a S-ATA-Disk. To test it, I did a 1:1-Copy of my "old"
> IDE-Disk with dd in Linux. When i bootet Windows the next time, it bootet
> from the copied system-partition on the S-ATA disk; I didn't any changes
> in
> the boot-manager and I booted from the IDE-disk like always. So I tried to
> switch off the S-ATA disk. But XP doesn't boot nomore from the IDE-Disk,
> it
> hangs on the Welcome-Screen. Seems it has confused partitions, maybe it
> has
> to do with drive-letter-assignment? I'm not very happy about this and want
> to "switch back" again!

You'll have to edit the boot.ini file to point to the new drive. Or if you
are dual booting with linux you may have to reconfigure your boot manager
e.g. lilo

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/BootIni_b6707f0b-f96b-48f1-a8ff-ce2d9675dc22.xml.asp

Kerry Brown
KDB Systems