HI, I don’t know whether anyone will be able to help.

The issue I’m having is I installed XP Pro on the C: partition but I wanted to install XP Home. It was late and I accidentally installed XP Home on the D: partition when I meant to put it on the C: partition.

I backed up my XP Home via Acronis and formatted the drive. I then tried to restore the acronis backup to the newly formatted C; drive.

So I am trying to get acronis to do a couple of things, restore XP Home from a d: partition install to a C: drive, changing the size from 10GB to 20GB (the drive used to have two 10GB partitions) and changing the drive letter of the install. It says all operations have been completed but then it won’t boot. Simply says non system disk and to restart. Am I asking too much? Can this be done?

Thanks for any help.

You should read your thread once again… its really hard to understand your problem because you mention so many uneccesary things… no offence.

In fact you have moved your working Windows XP installtion onto another partition. Now it wouldnt boot.

Why?
Your copy of XP wouldnt boot because the boot manager cant find the windows folder right there where it expected it.

So what you need to do is to correct that.

But then again…
Your XP installation comes from drive D. All links (also those in the registry files) will still refer to drive D.

E.g. it says that Windows is located unter D:\Windows\...

So in order not to run into further problems I would just reinstall XP.
How long would that take? 45 min for XP. 20 min for the drivers? Definitely quicker than anything else.