Well, if now it is being recognized by the system bios on startup, we have a whole different kettle of fish than we started out with. You wouldn't have gotten as far as you did if the jumper wasn't ok. When you change drive sizes that much, the whole drive geometry is different and windows may not be able to read it because it is addressing the space differently. You can save your installation though. I have to do this frequently when changing drives these days when I clone to a much larger drive. You need to do a repair install. To do this, boot to your installation CD when it asks if you what to repair or install, respond install. WindowsXP will look for existing copies of Windows on the machine before it proceeds. When it finds your existing install, it will ask if you want to repair or install. At THIS prompt, respond that you want to repair. When it finishes, you should be able to boot ok. You will need to reinstall all service packs afterwards though.

Thanks for the info!! Will try ther repair tonight. If I am able to get it booted normally will let you know.

Sounds to me like the "Ghosting" method you're talking about might be causing this. If you can get into safe mode but get no display when booting "normally" you could try installing the video drivers for the "old" machine in safe mode...if the image that you took from the "broken" machine was set to load video drivers that aren't compatible with the "old" machine I think you could see these problems. An easy fix would be to reghost to the drive in the "old" machine after which the ghost image should re-configure all the hardware, assuming that when you talk about "ghosting" you're referring to Norton/Symantec Ghost.

Thanks loads!! that was something that I wouldn't have thought to check or try, but now that I see it recommended it makes perfect sense.
Will let all know what happens.

After the one time of being able to get the system to boot in 'safe mode', it then wouldn't boot again in any mode.
I couldn't get it to do ANYTHING!!
I do give my THANKS to all that tried to help me-I have given up and am having someone work on it. Luckily, this is a friend of mine that is a computer genius(my mother never thought one would be able to associate the word 'genius' to any of my friends
So this thread can probably be closed, just not sure if moderator is supposed to close

Check the jumper on the harddrive. It the jumper is on slave or cable select and you are trying to detect the harddrive on the primary hard drive channel then it will not work. Change the jumper from the back of the harddrive to Master and then see whether the BIOS detects the harddrive or not.