X60S does not boot after change of HDD

Hi all
I upgraded my 5 year old X60S to a Seagate 320 HDD - reloaded win XP SP1 (oem) and it works fine on initial load. But on reboot it hangs at mup.sys (saw this in safe mode)
also at the time of initial load tried applying XP SP3 (without appying SP2) - this time on reboot it hangs saying cant find ntfs.sys
please help in diagonising / fixing
Regards
Sanjay

Hi sminni and welcome to the community,
There are a lot of reasons this could be happening. mup.sys is probably not the actual cause, that's just the last thing that you see. If you have usb devices plugged in, try unplugging them before the reboot, they might not be registering or re-registering properly.
The power supply might be marginal.
Try running a linux live cd and do a diagnosis on your new hard drive, there might be a problem with that.
Did you change the SATA mode in the bios to compatible or did you slipstream the SATA drivers into the XP build?
There are more reasons that this could be happening, but these are the main causes. Let us know if anything works or not.
Dave
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• Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger and later) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
• Click on Options button
• Select Apple Partition Map (PPC Macs)
• Click OK
• Select number of partitions in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD.)
• Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
• Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
• Click Apply/Partition button at bottom of panel.
• Select Erase tab
• Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
• Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
• Click Erase button
• Quit Disk Utility.
Open installer and begin installation process.
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