Swapped cloned drive; XP won't boot all the way.

My original WD hard drive was showing signs of instability, so I cloned it (using Norton Ghost) to a larger WD drive, setting the new drive to "boot" within Ghost, and removed the original drive.

When I boot up with the new drive, WinXP goes past the black XP toolbar screen to the blue icon splash screen and hangs. It doesn't freeze (you can still use your mouse) but it never displays the Users fields that let you log in. The same exact thing happens if you boot in safe mode. Registry problem? Appreciate any troubleshooting suggestions ...

 

More info: on doing some reading, I found this was a common problem with cloned drives. Someone in another thread suggested the problem was that Windows expected a C letter drive for example when the clone was assigned a D, so it couldn't tell which disk to load. They suggested using a FIXMBR command from the recovery console and rebooting, which I tried, but it had no effect unfortunately.

 

Can you get into the task manager? (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
If so, maybe there's a process that's causing the hang up... You can try booting to your XP CD and entering the Recovery Console and running "chkdsk /r". It can take some time, so be patient. In the meantime, I'll do some research and see if I can find some better info for you, and hopefully someone else will come along and shed some more light one this for you.....

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