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Slooooow Boot after cloning HDD, AAAIIIEEeeeeeeee

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Acronis True Image 2010
I used ATI 2010 trial version to clone one HDD to another HDD using the PCs internal IDE controller. This is a WinXP Home PC. The source is an 80GB Maxtor the destination is a Western Digital 500 GB HDD. After downloading & installing ATI 2010 it wanted to update so I did and rebooted. I started the cloning process and it went as I'd expect. It took about 30 minutes or less.

After cloning, when I put the 500GB drive in as Primary/Master it took over 10 minutes to get to the login screen. The screen shows the bars going across at the Windows XP boot screen, stopping and starting often. The HDD activity light goes on for a second and is dark for long periods... signifying the HDD isn't reading or writing much as it boots. I replaced the 500GB HDD with the original 80GB HDD as Primary/Single and the same thing happens. It takes over 10 minutes to get to the login screen. When I click on the login icon to login, it never... ever gets to the desktop. I let it go overnight and the icon was still showing in the morning.

What did I do that caused this? Can it be reversed or fixed?

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Since it's happening with both hdisks, I'd suspect the problem has to do with the the hardware is addressing the hdisk.

First thing I'd check is the BIOS to see that al the settings are as you intend.

Then, if that wasn't the problem, I'd try a diff hdisk cable.

If that didn't work I'd try a diff hdisk port (which might require a change in BIOS to accomodate).