I have a dimension 8400 with a bad drive. I have tried the ctrl-F11 restore but when it completes windows still won't boot (blue screen). I did a check disk and it has bad sectors preventing windows from booting.

Since I didn't create recovery disks when I initially received the dell (oops), I have pulled the ghost image from the hidden partition of the original and bought a new HDD. I have followed the directions below to restore the image to the new drive but when I try to boot with it I receive:

Loading PBR signature for descriptor 0...done.
Bad PBR signature

Any tips on how to correct this? I tried with a single partition on the new drive and with the Dell Utility partition as the first one and recovered to a second partition to try to emulate the original drive.

Here is the guide I used to pull the ghost image.
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/recover.htm