Originally posted by: jungle
I used ghost 7.5....
I looked up that Technet article, I tried the registry edit on the working drive....i dunno if i entered it wrong...apon reboot the machine booted to the username/icon screen w/ the icons greyed out and stayed there........crappy......i booted w/ win98 boot disk and did an fdisk /mbr to the drive i wanted to boot off of and all is well! YEAH! I guess wiping out the GUID took care of it. I am still confused as to why this all happended....i mean xp was installed on a machine w/ one drive as drive c, why can't it be ghosted to another drive as drive c......unless it has something to do w/ having the destination drive having 2 partitions on it.......I have ghosted xp b4 w/o any hang ups......me confuseded...but oh well....it werks now!
thanks!!!!
It happens because WinXP maps drive letters to partitions based on the drive's signature.
So the registry said, the drive with signature "12345" is drive C.
You then ghosted to a new hard drive, that had a different signature.
XP saw that drive with signature "12345" was missing, so it reserved drive letter C for that drive when it came back. Your new drive, with signature "67890," was assigned the next available drive letter.
XP was working exactly as it was designed to work.