Inacessible boot device

[ladge]

Hi,

I am trying to install my old harddrive in my newly purchased computer. I am trying to keep my old drive as my master drive (Win 2000) while having my the drive in the new computer as the slave (Win NT). The jumpers are correctly placed...but still, i am getting the following error: inacessible boot device...then it goes on to explain what should be done. When i reinstall my old drive (Win 2000..master drive) on my old computer, it is fine. When i try to only use the old drive in the new computer, it does not work......What is the problem here?

Thanks!

 

[StaceyBond]

Hi Ladge,
What happens if you install your old hard drive on your new PC on it's own, without the original (Win NT) drive fitted?. I can think of two things that might help. First-is your hard drive correctly reported in the CMOS (ie after the "auto-detect drives" does it report the right size of the drive)? The other thing is that Win NT and Win2K can have different file systems,the one won't see files on the other. Have you installed the Service pack for NT ?

StaceyBond

 

[wolluf]

ladge - so you're trying to boot from your old (2k) drive in the new machine (ie, operating system as loaded on old machine). That's a basic problem - drivers (new machine has completely different hardware). You need to back up and reinstall 2k with drive in new machine. There are other methods (ie, prepare the drive in old machine first) -

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/problems.htm

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.htm

might be useful (though personally, I'd reinstall - likely to be more stable).

 

[ladge]

Hi Stacey,

Thank you for your reply. I tried installing the old drive on its own and it does not boot, which i find strange. I thought maybe something is wrong with it but i reinstalled it on my old PC and it works fine. In the CMOS it detects both drives, shows them as installed and recognizes the correct size of the drives. I'm thinking maybe its trying to boot from both drives resulting in a conflict? Should i setup the slave drive as "cable select"?

Thanks

 

[ladge]

Hi Wolluf,

I'll look at the links you gave me. It sure seems like my exact problem.

Thanks!

 

[StaceyBond]

Hi again ladge,
I would have thought that it would have at least got as far as detecting some hardware on your new machine, that does seem strange. Are you using real OS, or is it a 'system' OS that came with a pre-built PC? Cable select shouldn't really make any difference. I'd go with wolluf on this though, 9/10 times it's always better to do a clean install of any OS when making major (and it doesn't come any more major than yours) changes to your system. It will be more stable 100%, and you'll lose any trace of old drivers that might cause a conflict with any newer hardware.

Good luck Stacey

 

[ladge]

Hi Stacey,

I went with Wolluf's suggestion and it is now working.
Thanks for your all your help!