I tried your advice Kento and installed the cloned hard disk into the computer and tried booting that way. After some fiddling it worked! So I...
Set up: Windows XP, 40GB WDC SATA Disk (System), 200GB Maxtor SATA Disk (Data), USB Disk 20GB WDC Eide. Used Acronis True Image Ver 9.0 Build...
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