liquidmonkey
Technical User
hello everyone and merry x-mas!!!
What i would like to do is clone or copy my old IDE hard drive to a new slightly larger SATA hard drive and then have the new SATA work as the system disk.
i used norton ghost 9.0 to copy the old IDE HD to my new SATA HD, no problems there, it worked.
But now when i take the old IDE out, and put the new SATA, windows will not boot.
no matter what i try, i cannot get the computer to boot from the new SATA hard drive even though it does have windows XP on it. yes, i clicked the option to copy over the MBR onto the new drive.
The original configuration is 2 IDE hard drives and looks like this in BIOS
Pri Master WD 160 GIG physical jumpers are 'master with a slave'
Pri Second Maxtor 80 GIG physical jumpers are 'slave'
Sec Master DVD-RW
Now when i hook up the SATA HD to my motherboard this is how my BIOS looks like...even though i still have 2 IDE HD's and one SATA HD hooked up.
Pri Master None should be the SATA HD
Pri Second Maxtor 80 GIG physical jumpers are 'slave'
Sec Master DVD-RW
also, when i enter the SATA RAID Bios, it shows that the SATA HD is installed and is a Maxtor 160 GIG on drive space '0' and it says that this is the 'First HDD'
but there are no options i can change at all.
also, when i go into regular BIOS, there are no options that look like they allow me to choose that the computer should boot up from the new SATA HD.
as far as i understand i should have the 2 IDE HD's as slaves (jumpers are set correctly) and then the SATA HD should be the primary master boot HD.
how do i set the new SATA HD to be the master?
one other thing and this could very well be the problem. my new SATA HD has the drive letter 'e' assigned to it. now i can change this to anything else, but cannot change it to 'c'. when i try to change the current 'c' drive to something else, it does not let me as it says 'cannot change the drive letter of the primary or boot drive'. is there a way around this?
can anyone help me with this please??
hope i explained this correctly....
thanks for any help in advance!!!!!
What i would like to do is clone or copy my old IDE hard drive to a new slightly larger SATA hard drive and then have the new SATA work as the system disk.
i used norton ghost 9.0 to copy the old IDE HD to my new SATA HD, no problems there, it worked.
But now when i take the old IDE out, and put the new SATA, windows will not boot.
no matter what i try, i cannot get the computer to boot from the new SATA hard drive even though it does have windows XP on it. yes, i clicked the option to copy over the MBR onto the new drive.
The original configuration is 2 IDE hard drives and looks like this in BIOS
Pri Master WD 160 GIG physical jumpers are 'master with a slave'
Pri Second Maxtor 80 GIG physical jumpers are 'slave'
Sec Master DVD-RW
Now when i hook up the SATA HD to my motherboard this is how my BIOS looks like...even though i still have 2 IDE HD's and one SATA HD hooked up.
Pri Master None should be the SATA HD
Pri Second Maxtor 80 GIG physical jumpers are 'slave'
Sec Master DVD-RW
also, when i enter the SATA RAID Bios, it shows that the SATA HD is installed and is a Maxtor 160 GIG on drive space '0' and it says that this is the 'First HDD'
but there are no options i can change at all.
also, when i go into regular BIOS, there are no options that look like they allow me to choose that the computer should boot up from the new SATA HD.
as far as i understand i should have the 2 IDE HD's as slaves (jumpers are set correctly) and then the SATA HD should be the primary master boot HD.
how do i set the new SATA HD to be the master?
one other thing and this could very well be the problem. my new SATA HD has the drive letter 'e' assigned to it. now i can change this to anything else, but cannot change it to 'c'. when i try to change the current 'c' drive to something else, it does not let me as it says 'cannot change the drive letter of the primary or boot drive'. is there a way around this?
can anyone help me with this please??
hope i explained this correctly....
thanks for any help in advance!!!!!