Another drive letter question with Windows XP

[4x4expy]

For over a year, I have been using a RAID 0 array(2 74gb raptors) as my boot drive. It was assigned letter I: back when the I installed the drives and the OS. Now I have decided to move back to a single large drive. (More space, and I will sell off the raptors while they are still in perfect health and maybe they can fund a vidcard upgrade).

So to the problem... I have a 200gb WD pata drive that I formatted and did a complete drive copy of the raid array using WD data lifeguard. I then tried booting off of the freshly copied pata drive(with the neccessary CMOS changes) and, it seems to freeze every time at the blue welcome screen. It never makes it to the desktop. This is the same method I have used many times to swap a drive without problem. My thought is that now that I am booting off of device c: it is running into problems with all of the reg entries showing I: as the boot device.

Is there an easy fix for this or am I missing another problem?

Thanks

 

[Ol Bob]

First thought is that it's your raid drivers that had to be installed to enable XP to boot from a raid array.Obviously will not work as a single ide drive.When installing WinXP on a raid setup you have to supply drivers on a floppy early in the install so that windows can find the raid setup.These would have been copied along with everything else.You'll probably need to boot from your XP cd and do a repair install at the least.

 

[carpenter]

Yep, and may have to disable raid in bios.

 

[redbeard1]

Try resetting the mbr by using a win9x boot disk and then running fdisk /mbr on the new drive. This is a common fix for cloning/copying drive booting issues. It may not work for you, but it is easy enough to try.