copy WinXP drive for 2nd backup bootable drive

Hi. I'm trying to clone my WinXP hard drive to a 2nd
hard drive using Drive Image 7. I want the 2nd hard
drive to be bootable for quick recovery from failure of
the 1st hard drive. Each drive is on its own controller
channel, and the 1st disk is formatted for FAT32.
(I plan to attempt the FAT32 -> NTFS conversion
once the image transfer is successful.)

I have prepared a FAT32 partition on the 2nd hard
drive and marked it "active". I have run Drive Image
twice to copy the image, but the first time (when
"Copy MBR" was checked) Drive Image reported an
error at the very end ("Redundant copies of the FAT
do not match the active FAT"). The second time (when
"Copy MBR" was not checked), the copy succeeded,
but the 2nd hard drive couldn't boot.

I'm wondering whether I'm doing something wrong, or
am I up against MicroSoft's registration scheme. Any
knowledgeable suggestions?


Miles & Smiles

 

I pretty much think it's the latter thing you're up against, this based on
reports I''ve read.

Mark Mandell