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New here.
I recently cloned my XP hard drive to an external hard drive and as I was attempting to load a new OS (ubuntu 12.4) in a partition.
the new os had a bug and overwrote XP.
I did a fresh install of XP and recloned from the
external HD and brought everythiing back to the way it was.
The only issue is now XP won't work properly without the external HD on and plugged in.
is this permanent or can it be fixed?

My system is an AMD 64 athalon 3500 2.2 ghz
cpu 2 gig ram Win.XP pro

Thank you for your patience.
s:)

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What do you mean by it won't work properly? What happens?

After the restore did you boot with he external drive attached? Does it boot properly? If you look at the location of the programs that don't run properly where do where do they show up?

I take the following as the case. You had a hdisk installed with xp.
You cloned this hdisk onto another hdisk. You didn't make a backup of the source drive, you simply cloned it.

Why did you install XP if you were going to use a clone drive?

If you installed xp on a hard drive in the PC and had a clone connected, windows will mark on of them as the active (system drive) and the other as not.

You should only boot up with a single active (system) disk connected.

If you installed xp and restored only selected files from the clone, then it matters what files you restored. If you restored system files, you likely as not botched up the install you had just made. I would either use the clone, or clone it to the desired drive - no windows install necessary if the clone was of a windows drive in the first place. After cloning and before rebooting, disconnect the old clone drive. You don't need to do an install of xp.

stigg wrote:

New here.
I recently cloned my XP hard drive to an external hard drive and as I was attempting to load a new OS (ubuntu 12.4) in a partition.
the new os had a bug and overwrote XP.
I did a fresh install of XP and recloned from the
external HD and brought everythiing back to the way it was.
The only issue is now XP won't work properly without the external HD on and plugged in.
is this permanent or can it be fixed?

My system is an AMD 64 athalon 3500 2.2 ghz
cpu 2 gig ram Win.XP pro

Thank you for your patience.
s:)

Scott Hieber wrote:
I take the following as the case. You had a hdisk installed with xp.
You cloned this hdisk onto another hdisk. You didn't make a backup of the source drive, you simply cloned it.

Why did you install XP if you were going to use a clone drive?

If you installed xp on a hard drive in the PC and had a clone connected, windows will mark on of them as the active (system drive) and the other as not.

You should only boot up with a single active (system) disk connected.

If you installed xp and restored only selected files from the clone, then it matters what files you restored. If you restored system files, you likely as not botched up the install you had just made. I would either use the clone, or clone it to the desired drive - no windows install necessary if the clone was of a windows drive in the first place. After cloning and before rebooting, disconnect the old clone drive. You don't need to do an install of xp.

stigg wrote:

New here.
I recently cloned my XP hard drive to an external hard drive and as I was attempting to load a new OS (ubuntu 12.4) in a partition.
the new os had a bug and overwrote XP.
I did a fresh install of XP and recloned from the
external HD and brought everythiing back to the way it was.
The only issue is now XP won't work properly without the external HD on and plugged in.
is this permanent or can it be fixed?

My system is an AMD 64 athalon 3500 2.2 ghz
cpu 2 gig ram Win.XP pro

Thank you for your patience.
s:)

Thanks Scott.
I didn't read the instructions about backup so I guess I'm stuck, wouldn't be the first time:)