If you reboot a sys, either by a sys reboot or otherwise, when you have
cloned your drive the boot drive letter will not be as intended. Its not the
fault of the cloning app, but a fact of life.
Currently your boot sector will be on C, whilst your win drive will be
something else.
Personally I would start from scratch. As soon as the clone has completed
you have to shut down your sys, disconnect the original C drive, before
rebooting, and only connecting the old C once you are satisfied your sys is
operational.
And if you reside in an area prown to brown outs you should consider a UPS

WinXp backup only works in conjunction with a floppy, it doesnt recognise
cd's or usb

"rq2000" <rq2000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9D7511C8-B355-47D7-805F-6B0960A7B378@microsoft.com...
> But I did mention what I had used to make the partitions AND to copy the
> existing drive, Western Digitals software -DATA LIFEGUARD TOOLS. I am not
> very pleased with it to say the least. But my issue isn't really with the
> SATA drive it is TRYING to bring the EXISTING one back from having its
> drive
> letter changed from C: to E: while leaving most of the Services it was
> running as the C: drive letter so now most of them aren't working at all,
> including my Norton AV or even Internet Explorer just for starters.
> Is it possible to use XPs backup with a usb thumb drive instead of a
> floppy?
> If I do follow the other steps in KB223188 what else will I need to do to
> get
> the drive back in working order?
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> 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
>> news:1AD5B824-27C2-4DB7-A927-C278CD497827@microsoft.com...
>> >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?
>>
>>
>>