From: "Ned F. Reiter" 

George,

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> Have you booted all the boot options to make sure they work? 

Well, I copied the other 10 partitions over, and I couldn't get my working
XP (on drive K:) to boot.  After fighting the recovery console (why can't
they let you edit boot.ini and why can't you copy to a root directory), I
got a valid boot.ini file set up, but now XP says a problem is not allowing
it to validate my authorization.  I fought this until midnight last night,
and I'm now back on the original 2 drives.  I'm going to come up with a new
plan before I try it again.

Is it possible to set the boot drive letter before booting?  My working XP
in on K:, but that means I have to have partitions C:-J: before it to get
the right letter assigned.  I'd like to copy that partition over first and
boot from it, then copy the rest later, but if I do that, it won't be drive
K:.

Maybe it's time to build the system fresh, new OS, better partitioning,
reinstall apps.  That's a LOT of work, I have a lot of software.

Maybe I'll try Ghost before giving up.  Time to visit the Norton site, I guess.

I just knew it wouldn't be that easy.  Windows never is.

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