I am referring to your first post in this thread about the cloned XP hanging with a blinking cursor.

I believe you have stumbled on a little-known problem with cloning of XP. The symptoms look familiar and it has happened to me before. This is discussed sometimes in forums on Norton Ghost and so on. The problem is not the imaging or cloning software (most seem to run into this problem except it seems for Acronis TrueImage). The problem is a feature of the XP registry itself. The solution involves editing the XP registry on the source disk before cloning.

I don't think I can explain the problem and the solution better than the 2nd-last post at bottom on this link here:
http://www.devhardware.com/forums/so...ems-82618.html