Scott15239
Programmer
I've also posted this message in the NT Server forum, but being desperate for help, I'll post it here as well!
Any suggestions that anyone has will be greatly appreciated! I have an NT4 server (SP6a) that currently has two drives, a 20 gig Western Dig. (boot drive) and an 8 gig seagate. I use Norton Ghost to clone the primary drive to the secondary drive (although it's larger, there's less than 8 gig of space being used on the 20 gig drive). My boss and I decided to upgrade the hard drives, and purchased a pair of Maxtor ATA 133 60 gig drives and an Ultra ATA 100 PCI card from a 'computer superstore', who also offered free installation. They installed the card and loaded the drivers onto the existing boot partition residing on the 20 gig drive. If the existing drives are left cabled to the onboard ATA slot, the machine endlessly reboots itself. If the drives are now cabled to the card, I'll get the blue screen of death say I have an inaccessable boot device. I've been discussing this problem with several of my peers and they feel the problem revolves around the fact (I don't know it's a fact but they feel it is so) that during installation NT records device information so that switching to the new drive is impossible without doing a fresh install of NT, which I am very loath to do. I should also mention that if I cable the existing 8 gig (backup) drive as the primary master on the onboard ATA, the system DOES come up, but now I'm in an even more difficult situation - instead of moving up from a 20 gig drive to a 60 gig, I've moved down to an 8 gig drive!! Anyone have any advice or ideas???????
Any suggestions that anyone has will be greatly appreciated! I have an NT4 server (SP6a) that currently has two drives, a 20 gig Western Dig. (boot drive) and an 8 gig seagate. I use Norton Ghost to clone the primary drive to the secondary drive (although it's larger, there's less than 8 gig of space being used on the 20 gig drive). My boss and I decided to upgrade the hard drives, and purchased a pair of Maxtor ATA 133 60 gig drives and an Ultra ATA 100 PCI card from a 'computer superstore', who also offered free installation. They installed the card and loaded the drivers onto the existing boot partition residing on the 20 gig drive. If the existing drives are left cabled to the onboard ATA slot, the machine endlessly reboots itself. If the drives are now cabled to the card, I'll get the blue screen of death say I have an inaccessable boot device. I've been discussing this problem with several of my peers and they feel the problem revolves around the fact (I don't know it's a fact but they feel it is so) that during installation NT records device information so that switching to the new drive is impossible without doing a fresh install of NT, which I am very loath to do. I should also mention that if I cable the existing 8 gig (backup) drive as the primary master on the onboard ATA, the system DOES come up, but now I'm in an even more difficult situation - instead of moving up from a 20 gig drive to a 60 gig, I've moved down to an 8 gig drive!! Anyone have any advice or ideas???????