Ghost image on new drive won't boot

[bmexline]

I just purchased a new wd harddrive. I used ghost to make an image of my C: drive onto the new formatted drive. I set ghost to "image all" i have also used drive image 7.0. All of these give me the same results which are:

When I boot up with the new drive all seems to go well until I get to the screen that would normally be the log on screen. Instead of giving me the different log on names (i have two, one for me and one for the wife) it just says "Microsoft Windows Xp" and the mouse arrow is present on the screen and it moves around with the mouse but there isn't anything to click on.

Someone suggest fixmbr from the xp disk. After i do fixmbr on the drive then it just stops during bootup and says to insert system disk. It doesnt even get into the windows part of the bootup process.

I used ghost because I can't get Data Lifeguard to work. The drive is a retail version and the DL is version 11 which by checking their website is the latest version. I installed the windows version and when I try to launch it I get a windows error message saying it has performed an illegal operation. I removed it and downloaded it from the website and reinstalled the dloaded version just to see if that made any difference but it doesn't. Data Lifeguard disables my sound for some reason and the only way i can get it fixed is to do a system restore.

Here are some random thoughts:

could it have to do with the drive letters being different? the first partition on the original drive is C: and the first partition on the new drive is H:. during the recover console it lists it as c:\windows. since it is actually on the H: drive could that be the problem? do i need to somehow get the drive letter switched to c: before i do fixmbr?

the first partition on both drives are listed as primary and the second partitions on both are listed as logical

sorry for the long post but i am just trying to give all the necessary information:

any help is greatly appreciated

 

[MrMike]

1. Did you install the new drive at the same time as the old one, boot to the old one, and let it see the new drive?
2. Did you try to boot to the new drive with the old one still in there?

Both of these would make what you're trying to do fail.

If you've already done 1, boot back into windows, go into device manager, and remove the drive. Disconnect the drive, and reboot once more to the old drive just to be safe (at least I would). This will undo what you've done. Then you may proceed to use drive image or ghost.
There's no reason this won't work as long as you're not changing the IDE controller
But you still can't let Windows become drive-letter-confused.

 

[bmexline]

1: yes I did
2: no I didn't

thanks for the suggestion, I'll do it as soon as I get home tonight.