Hard Drive Copy Problem

I recently got a new hard drive (WD Raptor 150 gb 10,000 rpm) that is smaller than my old drive (Maxtor diamond 200 gb). I tried using norton ghost to copy the drives but it kept hanging and would not finish. Then I downloaded a program from the western digital site for copying data onto new drives. It copied everything fine onto the new drive. It also set this drive as the boot drive. I then disconnected my old drive and fired my computer up and got "unable to load os" message. It won't load windows XP. Anyone know what might be going on here?

 

Drive cloning software (like Norton Ghost) usually assumes that the partition being cloned is no larger than the target drive or partition. That's probably where that approach bombed.

[**snipe warning** I don't think much of Norton products. If the target partition was too small, Ghost should have had the decency to tell you what the problem was.]

I'm not familiar with the WD product. If it didn't complain or hang, you probably got a good copy.

So let's check some assumptions:

• when you removed the old drive, did you reconnect the new one as primary master?
• did you re-set the jumper on the drive so that it will act as "master" or "single drive" (as appropriate)?