Help, XP will not boot all of a sudden

[runLoganrun]

I have a dual boot drive, my xp partition is now not working all of a sudden. It will start to load, show the windows splash screen, then it freezes after that at the blue screen before login. The only thing I can think of that I did differently was try to clone the partition to another drive, I couldn't get the other drive to boot, so I tried a couple different ways. I was using Norton Ghost. It was def after that, that xp stopped working. It really doesn't make any sense to me how that would affect it, I did the same thing with my Vista partition and that is fine. It's probably coincidental, but I thought noteworthy.

Is there any way to fix this, short of reinstalling?

thanks,
rlr

 

[gigabyte1024]

have you tried safe mode?

 

[runLoganrun]

I tried but when I hit f8 it just wants to go to vista safe mode, not xp. I'm not sure if I'm hitting the key too late or what.