I've read thru prior postings and have done what most people have indicated but still cannot get my copy to boot. Here's what I have done.
I have an 80 gb hard drive that I want to copy. Three years old and about 2/3rds full. Want to make a copy in case the drive fails. I'm using Windows XP pro on a Dell Dimension 2.8Ghz P4. Bought a new 120 gb hard drive to make a backup.
Hooked up the new drive. Openned Partition Magic to look at the two drives. The old 80gb drive had two partitions, one a 39.2 mb Dell fat partition and the rest as a ntfs partition. I set up the new drive with the Fat partition and then left the rest unalocated, labeled the drive H (since I could not label C). First copied over the Fat partition using Ghost 10 and then copied over the C drive. Everything went fine up to this point.
Replace the existing C drive with the new 120gb drive with the copy and started the computer. The first message I got was Diskette drive 0 seek failure. Then went into the Boot Menu and chose 1 normal. Then got the following message--Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt,
Windows root>system32\hal.dll.
At this point I'm at a loss of what to try next. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Don