Can't get cloned disk to boot

I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G onto which I have
cloned the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine
will only boot if I leave the original C: in the system.

The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used both
PowerQuest Drive Image and Acronis TrueImage to do the cloning but the
results are identical.

The key is to get the G: drive changed to C: but how? The XP Disk Manager
shows the G: drive as the System volume and the original C: drive as a
Pagefile.

As Oliver Hardy used to say "that's a fine mess we've gotten into!"
Gord

Did you set the new drive to active? How many hard drives are installed and
how are they partitioned? Are the jumper pins on the drive or drives set
correctly?

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"gord" wrote in message
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I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G onto which I have
cloned the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine
will only boot if I leave the original C: in the system.

The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used
both PowerQuest Drive Image and Acronis TrueImage to do the cloning but
the results are identical.

The key is to get the G: drive changed to C: but how? The XP Disk Manager
shows the G: drive as the System volume and the original C: drive as a
Pagefile.

As Oliver Hardy used to say "that's a fine mess we've gotten into!"
Gord

did you put the cloned drive onto the primary master ide channel
it wont boot if there isnt a boot drive where the BIOS expects a bootable
drive

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"gord" wrote in message
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I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G onto which I have
cloned the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine
will only boot if I leave the original C: in the system.

The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used
both
PowerQuest Drive Image and Acronis TrueImage to do the cloning but the
results are identical.

The key is to get the G: drive changed to C: but how? The XP Disk Manager
shows the G: drive as the System volume and the original C: drive as a
Pagefile.

As Oliver Hardy used to say "that's a fine mess we've gotten into!"
Gord

If you are using Win XP, you should be asking in an XP group, as the boot files and
methods are totally different in XP. This is a Win98 group. Even if you are
dual-booting both OS's, if you are using the XP boot manager, it is an XP issue.
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"gord" wrote in message
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I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G onto which I have cloned
the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine will only boot if
I leave the original C: in the system.

The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used both
PowerQuest Drive Image and Acronis TrueImage to do the cloning but the results are
identical.

The key is to get the G: drive changed to C: but how? The XP Disk Manager shows
the G: drive as the System volume and the original C: drive as a Pagefile.

As Oliver Hardy used to say "that's a fine mess we've gotten into!"
Gord

Thanks for your responses. The MS link by Ron lead me to the solution; in
particular the article referenced below.
Yes, I am using XP but I couldn't find a specific newsgroup for disk
problems.
Gord
"How to restore the System/Boot Drive letter in Windows"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/en-us