Thankyou Brian ,
For your links , i've spent good 3 hours to make things work !!!! finaly, i'm on wth my new Samsung HDD, summary of my fix is below, i wished norton had done more explaining to Copying (cloning) a HDD section. Anyhow here it is.
1: Copy Drive one partiotion at a time to another Slave HDD ,as in my case first partition win2000 ,20GB copied in little under 6minutes and second partion winXP 40 in little under 14 minutes , into unallocated and unpartioned drive space with no dirve letter(none) checked along with make drive active and checked copy MBR too.copy MBR only for first partiton.
2: Remove original Drive and set jumper to new drive to Master.
3: download a windows 98 startup disk (to fix drive letters as explained in "method#3" in (
www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm) and then boot with this floppy and run " fdisk/mbr"
4: Remove floppy and boot regularly with the newly Copied drive ( i booted to win2000 pro first). and voila !!! home free..
i'm so happy.
thanks i hope this will help others too.