New HD Will not boot after Drive Copy

Posted: 01-19-2009, 05:09 AM

MJB00

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I'm pretty experienced with building my computers and installing OS's.
but it has been a couple years since my last upgrade and I have no
formal training and don't know all the latest parameters involved with
windows and file systems and formatting disks.

I have an XP PC (upgraded from Win2K. I'm switching to a new 240GB
Hard drive. I set my C: partition to Basic Drive w/NTFS at 20GB and
ran PQ Disk Copy with Copy MBR selected. The new drive will not boot.
I get "Windows 2000 cannot find or file is corrupt: system32/
ntoskrnl.exe". but it is not. I thought it was weird it says windowss
2000. Does this have something to do with my partition size? My size
of the c: partition on the old HD is is 11GB. TIA

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Jason Tsang

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Re: New HD Will not boot after Drive Copy

Posted: 01-19-2009, 06:27 AM

Does your computer's motherboard (or hard drive controller) actually support
your new hard drive?

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"MJB00" <mjb0000@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm pretty experienced with building my computers and installing OS's.
> but it has been a couple years since my last upgrade and I have no
> formal training and don't know all the latest parameters involved with
> windows and file systems and formatting disks.
>
> I have an XP PC (upgraded from Win2K. I'm switching to a new 240GB
> Hard drive. I set my C: partition to Basic Drive w/NTFS at 20GB and
> ran PQ Disk Copy with Copy MBR selected. The new drive will not boot.
> I get "Windows 2000 cannot find or file is corrupt: system32/
> ntoskrnl.exe". but it is not. I thought it was weird it says windowss
> 2000. Does this have something to do with my partition size? My size
> of the c: partition on the old HD is is 11GB. TIA
>

Adrian C

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Re: New HD Will not boot after Drive Copy

Posted: 01-19-2009, 10:50 AM

MJB00 wrote:
I thought it was weird it says windowss

> 2000. Does this have something to do with my partition size? My size
> of the c: partition on the old HD is is 11GB. TIA
>

You need to adjust the partitions referenced in the boot.ini file. Were
there multiple partitions on the original drive?

Failing that, boot to the recovery console and run fixboot
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

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Adrian C

Ghostrider

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Re: New HD Will not boot after Drive Copy

Posted: 01-19-2009, 07:40 PM

MJB00 wrote:

> I'm pretty experienced with building my computers and installing OS's.
> but it has been a couple years since my last upgrade and I have no
> formal training and don't know all the latest parameters involved with
> windows and file systems and formatting disks.
>
> I have an XP PC (upgraded from Win2K. I'm switching to a new 240GB
> Hard drive. I set my C: partition to Basic Drive w/NTFS at 20GB and
> ran PQ Disk Copy with Copy MBR selected. The new drive will not boot.
> I get "Windows 2000 cannot find or file is corrupt: system32/
> ntoskrnl.exe". but it is not. I thought it was weird it says windowss
> 2000. Does this have something to do with my partition size? My size
> of the c: partition on the old HD is is 11GB. TIA
>

PQ Disk Copy is somewhat dated. It might have been better had a
more current disk cloning application been used, such as Acronis
TrueImage. Also, note that you are really cloning Windows XP and
an obsolete version of PC Disk Copy may no longer be compatible.

Ian D

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Re: New HD Will not boot after Drive Copy

Posted: 01-20-2009, 01:54 AM

"MJB00" <mjb0000@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b88781be-7056-4296-9963-bc977e63f2d7@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com...

>
> I'm pretty experienced with building my computers and installing OS's.
> but it has been a couple years since my last upgrade and I have no
> formal training and don't know all the latest parameters involved with
> windows and file systems and formatting disks.
>
> I have an XP PC (upgraded from Win2K. I'm switching to a new 240GB
> Hard drive. I set my C: partition to Basic Drive w/NTFS at 20GB and
> ran PQ Disk Copy with Copy MBR selected. The new drive will not boot.
> I get "Windows 2000 cannot find or file is corrupt: system32/
> ntoskrnl.exe". but it is not. I thought it was weird it says windowss
> 2000. Does this have something to do with my partition size? My size
> of the c: partition on the old HD is is 11GB. TIA
>

It looks like you're using Drive Image 2. It's not compatible
with XP. Acronis True Image is what you want. If you're
setting up a new drive, give XP 40GB, at least.

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