Thanks for that, fobotcso, but I’m afraid it doesn’t quite address my problem. I was trying to move a complex, (three users), fully set up operating system to a new and larger hard drive and hoping not to have to re-install a wagon load of software. Although, given all the time I’ve spent on it, I’d have been better off starting from scratch with a clean XP install on the new HD and then loading all the necessary software. I don’t have access to the copy of XP used for the original install, and even if I did, I understand that any re-install would overwrite what’s there already. Is that correct?
The experience has convinced me yet again that XP is something best seen on someone else’s computer. The crazy thing is, it copied without a hitch to another small HD, but even after I made a similar sized partition on the new HD, I got the same message, whilst on a third HD, I didn’t get the message and Win XP started, but froze on the startup page.
On the subject of system freezes, is there an equivalent command in Win XP to the CTL/ALT/DEL command to get into the Task Manager, as you can with Win2K?