Cloning of a disk failing on a new drive has left the computer unbootable

I upgraded my hard drive because it is run in mode only PIO makes it incredibly slow. Some cloning software using different, I made a clone of my drive to a new drive. No matter what method or the brand of software that I use to clone the drive, whenever I try to start after the end, I get the same error "the ARC firmware startup configuration problem: has not correctly generated name of ARC for HAL (it will)..." "Is it a security measure built into XP to prevent me from cloning the drive? I lost days now trying to clone my whole disc rather than doing a complete new installation of the OS and all software. Any ideas on this would be useful.

Ok. I don't get all the answers to this good. What I ended up doing was using a disk to reinstall XP boot to the recovery console and do a Fixboot difficulty MBR, then a bootcfg/rebuild. Seems to have solved the problem.

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