"Error loading operating system" message after POST

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Hi, I have a Gigabyte GA-6OXE with BIOS version F7b. I used a “Ghost” type of program called SelfImage to copy the image of my 15 GB Maxtor 91531U3 hard drive to my 80 GB Western Digital WD800 hard drive. The copy appeared to complete successfully. I can even see the files on the 80 GB Western Digital drive when I have it hooked up as a slave drive while booted into Windows on the 15 GB Maxtor drive.

However, when make the 80 GB Western Digital drive the primary master and attempt to boot to it I get a message stating: “Error loading operation system".

I tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT with no luck. I also went into BIOS to change the Access Mode to Large, but that made no difference either.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.


Thanks!
 
make sure the partition on the new disk is set to "active"

i use Casper to clone my OS every few months and never have an issue.
 
I just did an internet search and it appears that fdisk can handle that. I'll try it. Thanks again.
 
Okay, I ran fdisk and confirmed that the partition is in fact active. Any other thoughts?
 
start, run, diskmgmt.msc, enter, right click on the primary partition, mark partition as active.
 
I decided to give up on the image idea and I simply went ahead and attempted to reinstall Windows using the Windows XP Pro disc. But after the first reboot during Windows installation, I again got the "Error loading operating system" message. Do you guys have any suggestions? I'm stumped at this point.
 
Check to make sure that the bios is up to date.

If that fails, maybe the program that you used. "Selfimage" did not copy the windows boot files properly. Try using a different ghost program and ghost the drive again.
 
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