Changing Drive C: over Using XXCOPY

[sweep123]

I have been using xxcopy to replace my primary hard drive.

I follwed all the procedures to xxcopy over ALL the files from C: to D:.

However when I remove the old C: drive and set the jumper on the D: to be Master I get the following message at boot-up:-

Auto-Detecting Pri Master.. Press <ESC> to abort

The drive is not detected and the ESC does nothing.

Note when both drives were connected, both were detected and usable.

Note2: The motherboard is MS6147 (4 years old) with a 450MHz processor. The new hard drive is a Samsung Spinpoint 30MB.

Note3: the final part of the procedure is to set the DOS partition active, but cant do this as drive not detected.

Help!

 

[scvpctech]

Your BIOS may not recognize a drive that size. Check the manufacture web site how to get around it. Maxtor and Western Digital have software that &quot;tricks&quot; the machine.

 

[ceh4702]

If you were able to connect the drive and copy the files your BIOS can see the drive. Still that is a large drive on a system that old. I have had problems with a 20 Gig drive on a PII 350 motherboard. Make sure you are seeing the entire drive.

You have to use something like FDISK or an XP Install disk (if you use XP) and set which partition is the bootable partition. You do not always have to do this. Sometimes if you have one hard disk and make a partition it makes it bootable by default. This may be why you have never seen this.

Dont delete the data on your other drive yet. I have used Maxtor Max Drive or whatever it is called and it copies drives really well and really fast. It only works with Maxtor Drives.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[wolluf]

sweep123

Take it your operating system is win9x/ME?

Check cabling & ensure you have jumpered new drive correctly (may have a master on its own and master with slave setting).

If you're expecting new drive to boot (once it is recognised)- it won't unless you make it bootable (need to run sys x: from dos prompt, where x: is new drive letter as seen from there. May need to restore msdos.sys from olddrive after this - if sys writes a minimal one).

PS. Have you tried with both drives connected, but reversed?

 

[Jontmke]

If the bios is not detecting it then that is your problem. When you switched the drives did you change the jumpers on the back of the drive?

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[sweep123]

The new drive set as slave all OK.

New drive set as master, then nor detected, old drive set as master OK, old drive set as slave and new drive set as Master -> old drive detected new drive not detected.

Jumpers set as required.

Do I need to flash the BIOS to allow the motherboad to detect tis large drive.