The backup application included with winxp was written in the days when cd's
did not exist & has not being updated.
There are numerous third party backup applications.
There is no need to use third party tools to partition/format the new drive,
winxp has all the tools required, using third party tools can cause
problems, and unless you have a very good reason for using fat32 you should
be using ntfs.
You dont mention what you used to copy your winxp partition.

"rq2000" <rq2000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently added an internal Western Digital 500 GB SATA2 Drive into a
> fairly new computer(less than two months old Phenom 9600) I used the
> included
> software to attempt to format and partition the drive into 4 sections. I
> wanted to makle this my primary drive so I could take out the old 30 GB
> drive
> I had laying around that was very slow. The software included was DATA
> LIFEGUARD TOOLS and GOOGLE software. The partitions initailly were set up
> backwards of how I wanted so I started over again and attempted to do it
> opposite of the way I had previously. This time it worked like it should
> have in the begining and set it up like I had told it to do, not how I
> actually wanted it to be. I had it set it up as a boot partition so my
> main
> drive was copied (taking several hours which surprised me 22GB would take
> that long) After seeing that XP was copied to a FAT32 partition I thought
> it
> wouldn't possibly load correctly and was meaning to change it. Before I
> got
> the opportunity my power failed computer shutdown and rebooted but hung on
> startup right before login screen. So I put in my Windows XP disk and
> attempted a repair install. After running what appeared to be a regular
> install I managed to get my main drive back up and running but the drive
> letter was changed (from drive C: to drive E ; however, most of my
> services are now not working as they are set to DRIVE C: . This is
> completely frustrating as now I can't even use IE7 and attempting to do so
> brings a failure and starts dr. watson error reporting with a link I can't
> go
> to and brings about another dr watson report. PLEASE HELP ME. My questions
> are after reading KB223188 How to restore a the system boot drive letter
> in
> Windows once this is done will I still have to do another repair. Also why
> is
> it necessary to have the backup utility included in windows use a FLOPPY
> DRIVE to save the information to even begin to use. I was under the
> impression that this was going to be fixed in the next service pack (SP3)
> so
> a USB drive would be sufficient to store the information needed for the
> restore. Since I do NOT HAVE a Floppy drive in this machine, should I try
> and
> salvage one from an old machine just to make a backup of my data BEFORE
> attempting to fix the drive letter issue?