Thank you so much. I think that you've nailed my problem. I thought that Ghost cloned a drive but it did not copy that hidden partition on the C drive that Dell put in.
Now, you mention "zeroing a drive". I'm familiar with formating and overwriting but I get the impression that you're talking...
Yes, that's right.
I have checked the Dell site and have not found SATA drivers for the 4600. How can I find the drivers?
I have started over, reformatting the drive and using a copy utility that Western Digital furnished with the drive. It seems to work until it reaches 96% then says that...
Thanks, Sam. It does seem to be the same problem I'm having. I did try again, using the HD mfr CD to format and copy the IDE drive to the new one. When I rebooted I disabled the IDE drive and left the SATA active. No messages, just a cursor on the top left of the screen. When I make both...
Yes, the original HD was IDE. I connected the new one to the SATA port on the motherboard. If I enable the SATA drive the system won't start -- gives the "NTLDR is missing" message. If I disable SATA it starts normally.
When I first installed the SATA drive it booted normally and I could...
I installed a WD 250GB SATA drive. It seemed to work fine. I then used Norton Ghost 10.0 to copy my C drive to the SATA drive using the options to add the boot record and create an active partition.
When I rebooted I got a message that there was no boot record found. I was able to boot again...
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