I joined this forum last night after searching for a fix for the ARC Configuration error booting XP after ghosting a new disk. The many Forum questions and answers di not help and I eventually solved it myself. The easy answer is that its nothing to do with Ghost, running Sysprep, Partition size or using new / old versions of Fdisk etc. This is a fundamental hardware problem. The older disk you used origionally to install XP did not allow the BIOS to enable int13. When this happens XP writes the boot.ini (on root of C: as having a drive signature to identify the boot partition rather than the normal "default=multi(x)" to identify the system drive partition. To fix this is 5 mins work. Put the new disk (the one which wont boot) into another pc as a slave drive boot up and edit the boot.ini file on your malfunctioning boot sector. Edit lines which identify the system partition (you should see the drive signature entry which needs to be over written) with
default=multi(0)
and
multi(0)disk(0
On my pc the whole boot.ini file reads;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

put the new drive back into the pc and boot, it should now boot normally.


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