BSOD after restoring my XP image

[darkcyber]

Ok, first off, I know everyone wants to suggest doing a clean install, but I have a ton of stuff installed and I do not want to do that...so I have my reason for doing what I am doing


Now, to the problem. I have made an image backup of my 36 gig raptor OS hd. I took that image and restored it to one of my other computers, which has a different motherboard and chipset and it booted up fine (had to re-detect everything and all that), but it works fine. I had an MSI K8N Neo 4 SLI Platinum motherboard that died on me and I sent it in for repair/replacement. In the meantime, I purchased a cheap Biostar that I been using and this is the board in which I restored my image to and this image worked fine, even on the raptor hd.

Now I have my replaced MSI board and I put it in the computer and it starts booting and shows the XP splash screen and then after a few moments I get a BSOD crash. This is on my SATA Raptor hd. Hmmm! I say. So, I restore the image to an IDE hd I have and boot it up and it works fine.

So, if it will boot to the desktop using the ide hd and will not using the SATA hd, do you think it is reasonable to say that XP does not have the SATA drivers installed or something. Again, this image is from another pc, which I am switching from and it was an MSI RS482M4 motherboard and probably uses different SATA drivers.

Anyone got any ideas on fixing this? Yes, I could just use my IDE hd as my OS hd, since it works, but I would rather be able to use my raptor

I have not tried the repair recovery thing yet or have not tried booting into safe mode either. I basically ran out of time and had to leave to go to work. Just looking for some ideas.

It has to be something with the SATA, because it boots on the ide hd fine. But what is strange, my SATA raptor booted up fine on the Biostar motherboard and this image was from the MSI RS482M4 motherboard originally. So, I can't understand why it will not boot on the K8N board.

I guess what I am fishing for is do you think it is the SATA causing the issue?

 

[bruceb]

Try this: Go into the BIOS and set the Hard Drive controller to
IDE emulation. Now restore your Image to the drive. Next be
sure your SATA Drivers are installed. Now go back into bios
and reset the controller to SATA ... That should do it.

 

[darkcyber]

Originally posted by: bruceb
Try this: Go into the BIOS and set the Hard Drive controller to
IDE emulation. Now restore your Image to the drive. Next be
sure your SATA Drivers are installed. Now go back into bios
and reset the controller to SATA ... That should do it.

You lost me there. What do you mean by set the hd controller to IDE emulation? Never heard of that...what/how?

Thanks for the reply.

 

[bruceb]

It is a setting within the BIOS for the Primary Hard Drive Controller
You need to look at the instructions for whatever BIOS you have
or the motherboard manual should have the same information.

 

[kimchee411]

Originally posted by: darkcyber

Originally posted by: bruceb
Try this: Go into the BIOS and set the Hard Drive controller to
IDE emulation. Now restore your Image to the drive. Next be
sure your SATA Drivers are installed. Now go back into bios
and reset the controller to SATA ... That should do it.

You lost me there. What do you mean by set the hd controller to IDE emulation? Never heard of that...what/how?

Thanks for the reply.

As stated, you had your previous mobo set to use IDE emulation instead of using AHCI. (Did you have to load SATA drivers when you originally installed Windows?) You will have to do the same for your new mobo.

 

[darkcyber]

loading the SATA drivers, really can't remember, been that long

Here's what I did try. I took my ide hd with that same image that does work and put in back in and completely let it detect everything and install everything...all the drivers, even the SATA, Raid, SCSI drivers...etc. Then once everything was installed, took and cloned the ide over to my SATA Raptor. Then I tried booting from the Raptor and now it does not crash anymore, but is gets to the XP splash screen and shows the progress bar moving across and never goes any farther. It did this all night long.

 

[darkcyber]

Tried booting into safe mode and it gets to \windows\system32\giveio.sys and stops

 

[darkcyber]

Well, I thought everything was ok. I did a repair re-installation over my XP installation and got the drivers installed...etc. and then to pc did boot into XP. But now the problem. Several of my programs that I had installed and registered have now lost there registration and are back to the trial version

Other programs are just screwed and give an error when I try to run them. So, fixed the OS, problem and just created more for my apps.

 

[kimchee411]

The problem is that the Windows installation on your image is configured for use with an IDE interface, not AHCI.

Restore the image to your Raptor and try to configure your mobo for IDE emulation. I looked through the manual for the MSI K8N Neo4 SLI (this is your board, right?), but didn't see any explicit SATA IDE emulation setting. On your BIOS config, try going to Integrated Peripherals -> IDE Devices Configuration -> and disabling SATA1/SATA2, or maybe one of the IDE channels. You could also try changing the IDE DMA transfer access setting... or perhaps Load Optimized Defaults.