I tried to migrate Windows XP Pro SP1 to a complete new hardware platform. The Windows XP I had to migrate is on the 2nd partition of the primary master HDD. The source system uses 2 partitions on the 1st HDD and 3 partitions on the 2nd HDD. It uses a multiboot for one Windows XP Pro (HDD-1 /1st part. as a test environment) and one Windows XP Pro. (HDD-1 / 2nd part. as standard environment). I prepared the source system by converting the partition from FAT32 to NTFS. After this I run the program sysprep to seal the source XP installation. Then I installed a 3rd HDD as a secondary master an made an image backup with PQ DriveImage 5.0. After finishing the backup I moved the disk to the new machine (also as secondary master) which also uses 2 HDD (primary master & slave) with the same partitioning (only diffrent sizes of partitions) and driveletters (HDD-1 Part. 1 = C: Status: Primary, Active, HDD-1 Part. 2 = D: Status: Primary, HDD-2 Part.1 to 3 = E:,F:,G:). Previously I installed the system with a native Windows XP Pro SP1a on Drive C:. Then I restored the Image-Backup from the D: drive installation of the source system to the same partition of the new mashine. Last but not least I modified the boot.ini in drive C: for choosing the operating system from partition 2 of the 1st HDD. The line I addes was:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows=”MS Win XP Pro Standard”/fastdetect
After rebooting and choosing the operating system on partition 2 of HDD-1 the system loops rebooting. Also adding the parameters /sos /basevideo or /crashdebug didn’t improve the function of the boot.
I also tried the parameter signature(8b467c12)in the boot.ini. But only the boot from drive C: works properly.
Is there anybody who knows what I’m doing wrong?