Hello All,

I'm trying to swap hard drives in my system but am having some trouble. The system runs on WinXP Pro and I have two 40.Gig Western Digital drives installed. Currently, the primary master drive is 5400 rpm. I want to swap places with the primary slave drive which is 7200 rpm. I used WD's disc copy utility but windows won't boot from the newly copied slave drive turned master. I changed the jumpers to the new position but had to change them back when I couldn't boot WinXP. Do I need to partition and format the 7200 rpm drive and then re-install windows? It seems this might be a copy protection scheme for WinXP not booting. Could it be that this is all a waste of time wanting the faster drive as the primary boot device? Any comments are greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Gary J.

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