Restoring Image to new Hard Drive

My Scenario:

1. Laptop HD (30GB) Failed but luckily I have an image of it.
2. Have new replacement HD (40GB) but is a different model and size.
3. Imaged the new hard drive with existing image.
4. New HD will not boot into Windows XP!

I tried various things to get the new HD to boot but it seems the MBR cannot be set properly. I used XP boot disk to reset MBR also, didn't work.

Help!

 

Hello PE1,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

We recommend you to perform a repair installation of your Windows XP.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to perform a repair installation here.

Thank you.
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Tatyana Tsyngaeva

 

The "R" or Repair option is unavailable. The WinXP CD only allows me to overwrite my C:\WINDOWS directory, no option to repair. I followed the instructions to the dot.

 

Then you don't have a clue pal, watch the screen shortly after you boot from the WinXP CD-ROM... follow the instructions instead of looking at the view...

 

According to the link supplied above (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx), I am not to use the Recovery Console: "Do not choose the option to press R to use the Recovery Console." but rather the repair function.

 

Fixed it.

My boot.ini file was corrupted somehow. Had to change partition information for my new HD. Somehow it was set to:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

When it should have been:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

I had to use bootcfg to fix it using the Windows XP Recovery Console.