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I just reread your thread..notice in the first post that you messed with the letter assignment of the WD drive.

Question...will the WD drive boot up fine all by itself..with no other drives attached?

If so...run a full checkdisk with repairs on it..and then try to clone again.

And if it cannot ...

The issue you encountered is one of the reasons I prefer to "clone" outside of the OS. I've used some cloning programs from within Windows before..but still, my guy just feels better doing it outside of the OS.

I had to recently use PING on a very new laptop from a nursing agency..some Fujitsu ...

Then avoid using the drive image. You took the drive image of the old drive, isn't it?

Install the OS from the XP disk on the new HDD and run it. If it doesn't then look into some other hardware problems starting from the Motherboard.

Yeah I did. I wanted to avoid reinstalling OS and all ...

Try cloning with P.I.N.G. instead
Partition Image Not Ghost

If you're not going to use Ghost or Acronis TI...PING is one of the better more reliable "free" ones. ;)
Drawback being..it won't resize partitions on the fly..but there are plenty of other free utils which can do that.

I might try it ...

satyre wrote:Remove the WD HDD and run it on the new HDD alone. See what happens.

I already tried. the same result

Hi
I am new here. And desperate. I would love to throw the whole pc out of the window now :cool: But it's my friend's computer. Why am I so stupid and can't say no when somebody needs help with PC :confused:

My friend's Western Digital HDD started to run very slowly,
I bought two new HDDs ...