[AccessD] Clone my hard drive

I have a "public" (in the living room) XP system which my son and daughter use for games and 
browsing the internet.  The hard disk is old and slow and I want to replace it with a new Seagate 
Momentus XT to speed the system up.  I have been trying for days to clone the old disk using two 
different disk cloning packages - DriveImg XML this last time.  They claim to do a sector by sector 
clone and in fact the resulting cloned disk looks identical (visually) but the new disk won't boot 
with a "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" message after the bios.  Google says 
to just do a Fixmbr from the repair console but no go.  This is getting really old.

The "new" drive is there, can be seen, has windows including all of the hidden system files in the 
root, I have done the "boot to repair console and 'fixmbr'" but it still gives me the error message.

Just as an aside the new disk is slightly larger 300 gigs vs 250 gigs.

Can I some how use Windows Raid1 to raid the system disk since (in theory) a Raid1 disk is identical 
to the paired disk.

I have spent way too much time on this and am getting nowhere.  Google doesn't find anything about 
getting past this if "fixmbr" doesn't get it working.

Any ideas?

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John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it