I make bootable clones regularly using Norton Ghost.
Sounds like it would work for you.

At 12/13/02, you wrote:

>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.