Windows XP Start Up Issues

[Coach17]

A couple of weeks ago I installed a new 500GB Western Digital hard drive. I used a program called Acronis to do an image copy from my WD 120GB hard drive. Since then but not all the time when I power my machine on it keeps rebooting and will not start. Then on another try it goes to the light blues screen and does a check disk and all seems good. Is there a way I can fix this? Does this have something to do with the drivers?
On another note I also have an Administrative account set up which I did not have when I had my 120GB hard drive. I had no problems at that time.
Thanks for your help.

[Midknyte]

Refresh our memory. Is this that IDE to SATA transfer?

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=237961

If so, you should do a repair install of XP. I mentioned on that thread that going from IDE to SATA could cause problems since the HALs are different.

You can also try updating your chipset drivers.

[Coach17]

It ended up being IDE to IDE. I have looked at my Windows XP Disk and I do not see anything listed about repairs. Can you explain how I would do this repair.

[Midknyte]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Coach17]

The end result was that I re-formated my drive and started all over again. Now that I have a clean install everything is good.