"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote:
Its better to just copy it from the original drive to the new
one and boot with just the new one plugged in on the first
boot after the copy. XP will then see that as the C drive.

Okay, I'm going to try it

It didn't work.
MaxBlast seemed to copy all (except a few unnecessary) files. I shut
down unplugged the old drive Restarted a message displayed:
Operating System Not Found

I shut down re-plugged in the old drive restarted like normal the
old drive is still the C drive.

"Operating System Not Found" often means the partition was not set as
"active". Do you know if the new partition has been marked active in its
partition table? Check if MaxBlast has that as a menu option. If it
doesn't, download the freeware MbrWork from
http://www.bootitng.com/utilities.html. Boot from a floppy disk, run
mbrwork.exe and use its "Set a partition active" option.

BTW, MaxBlast doesn't remove C: from the old drive, it merely duplicates it
on the new drive. The old drive will still think it's C: if you boot from
it, so your last comment is normal.