Ok, I missed the original, but here is my input on this. Just copying
the drive contents does not make it bootable. That is something that
FDISK does. Try FDISK /mbr - also make sure that the partition on the
new drive is set as primary AND active. You can do this from a DOS boot
floppy - since the hard disk is not booting.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Porter
Haven't seen any replies to this one so I'll jump in with some possibly
not-too-well informed comment:

I would have thought this would have worked...except then I started to
wonder how you'd set up and formatted the slave drive to begin with. And
then used the WD copy program.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
> 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

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