image from usb, need to change to ide...

bear with me, this is a long story. . i originally made an image of a hard drive onto usb external drive with v2i. i wound up having to restore this drive using a smaller hard disk. the file system fits fine, but the original drive is 80 GB (according to the v2i image) and the destination drive is 40GB (file system ...

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bear with me, this is a long story..
 
i originally made an image of a hard drive onto usb external drive with v2i.
 
i wound up having to restore this drive using a smaller hard disk. the file system fits fine, but the original drive is 80 GB (according to the v2i image) and the destination drive is 40GB (file system is only 14 GB).
 
so I tried to restore the image to a usb external drive partition of 80 GB, and then resized it to 40GB. Then imaged it again...from the usb external drive.
 
the final restore is to the 40GB IDE hard drive, but the problem is that the motherboard thinks the boot device is a usb drive now, but it is really IDE !!
 
how can I change the boot device name from the usb to IDE ??
 
i am trying to boot windows xp home.
 
thanks...

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Change the boot sequence in the BIOS, also check the BOOT.INI file to ensure that the HD version XP is loaded!