It is rather puzzling as I cannot figure out what I can be doing wrong. Forgot to check last night which version of Ghost it is but cannot see that this should be an issue. The F: slave drive has been formatted using Windows. I did not get any software with the Maxtors but both have been recognised by XP and the bios settings are OK. Having then disconnected the original C: drive and replaced it with the F: drive and changed this from slave to primary the PC will boot up only as far as the windows logo on the pale blue screen background. Norton tells me the copying has been successful. I have used Ghost to copy XP and all the other stuff on the C : drive to the F: drive carefully following the instructions given in the Ghost manual.
What I have are two Maxtor 80 gig HDD, a primary and a slave and both are virtually new.
