Moved XP partition with Winclone - now getting hal.dll corrupted

I recently did an overhaul of my hdd setup and moved, using winclone, my Win XP partition to a different drive. Since then I get the error:
Windows cannot start because the following file is corrupted:
<Windows> \ System32 \ hal.dll
Please reinstall a copy of the previous files.
I've seen that this may happen when Parallels is also installed, but I don't use that.
I tried repairing boot.ini using [these Microsoft instrux|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330184], which were recommended in [this thread|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5840341]. Windows Recovery Console finds the current Windows installation. And when scanning for more installations using bootcfg /rebuild, I am permitted to add the one that is found using the Microsoft instructions (actually, there are no other than the original one but presumably the Recovery Console finds the re-located installation). But upon reboot, the error returns.
Any thoughts?
/p

Hi Stefan and danke schön for the quick reply.
Windows has to be on the last of the first 4 partitions).
I used FAT32 when I installed using Bootcamp. I also used FAT32 on the new partition onto which I put my clone of Win XP using Winclone.
I don't think I resized. The new partition onto which I cloned back Win XP is 22.9 GB according to Disk Utility, which is also what Winclone reports that the clone is in total when "unpacked".
On the drive where the XP partition now resides there are three partitions:
Mac boot drive
Win XP
Mac (scratch disk - easy to delete)
So I guess the problem is that the Windows volume is not the last of the three and that I would have to switch the order of the last two partitions?
Thanks again for your help.
/p

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