However I realised I should use a new HD for the new installation in case I've forgotten to copy anything across.
Anyway, I bought a new Western Digital 160GB PATA hard drive, but ran into an error at 43% of formatting every time I tried to format it, so I bought yet another hard drive. It's exactly the same capacity and brand and from the same store as the other 160GB drive.
The new HD had no errors when being formatted.
I used the latest version of Norton Ghost to copy the new XP installation over to a 40GB partition on the new drive. I tried this on both the new 160GB drives, but whenever I used the HD to boot, XP got up to the stage where it would normally show the main screen with my wallpaper ect, but it just shows a black screen with the cursor on it.
The original XP rebuild works perfectly. It's just these clones that stuff up.
I double checked all the copy settings to make sure all hidden files, Master boot record etc. were copied across and I ensured the correct jumper settings were done on the hard drive too.
I've copied across the operating system with old hard drives and old versions of Windows at least half a dozen times and never run into this error before.
I'm wondering if I should try it without copying the master boot record from a 250G non-partitioned HD to a 40G partition on a 160GB drive.
Does anyone have any idea what's gone wrong?
