Drive copying

[cyberttc]

I just bought a new 20G hard drive for my old Pentium system. I used Norton Ghost 6.0 to copy files from my old 3.2G hard drive to the new drive. My problem is that I can't boot with the new drive.

My question is how do I use my new drive without losing my data.

 

[Taz4158]

Did you make the new drive bootable?

 

[cyberttc]

I just used Ghost to copy all files from my old drive to the new drive.

 

[Degenerate]

i think theres an option in options area to copy boot information
give it a go

 

[cyberttc]

I think I copied all information to the new drive including boot information.

 

[Radboy]

try using fdisk or partition magic to make the new partition active.

i had that prob once after ghosting.

 

[cyberttc]

The partition on my old hard drive is already active and bootable. Doesn't the new drive will also be active after copied?

 

[Taz4158]

<< The partition on my old hard drive is already active and bootable. Doesn't the new drive will also be active after copied? >>


No.

 

[Menelaos]

nope.

Menel.

 

[cyberttc]

Well, my new hard drive booted on another system but not my old pentium system.

 

[Menelaos]

Is the old one stil in there? Is it de-activated (bootwise)? What's BIOS set to?

MeneL.

 

[Agamar]

Sounds like you need to go into bios and redetect it.

 

[Dufusyte]

Proper procedure for installing a new drive:

1. Make boot floppy.
2. Disconnect old drive, connect new drive.
3. Boot off of floppy,
4. format new drive,
5. fdisk new drive, set active partition.
6. Connect both new drive and old drive.
7. Copy everything from old to new, except win386.swp
8. Disconnect old drive, (or keep as a secondary drive)
9. In BIOS, make sure you will boot from the new drive.
10. Boot from the new drive, make sure the desktop icons work, because they are funky and may need to be redone on the new system.

When connecting a drive, you should take a look at the jumper settings to see if the drive is slave/master, and change as necessary.

 

[buckeye]

did you change the new drive jumper back to &quot;Master&quot; ?

 

[Jex]

<< Proper procedure for installing a new drive:

1. Make boot floppy.
2. Disconnect old drive, connect new drive.
3. Boot off of floppy,
4. format new drive,
5. fdisk new drive, set active partition.
6. Connect both new drive and old drive.
7. Copy everything from old to new, except win386.swp
8. Disconnect old drive, (or keep as a secondary drive)
9. In BIOS, make sure you will boot from the new drive.
10. Boot from the new drive, make sure the desktop icons work, because they are funky and may need to be redone on the new system.

When connecting a drive, you should take a look at the jumper settings to see if the drive is slave/master, and change as necessary. >>



Steps 4&amp;5 should be swapped. Fdisk first to create &amp; set your partition(s) and then format them.

 

[Dufusyte]

Thanks for the correction. I'd also like to add two more items.

- Before First step: perform a complete virus scan of the old drive so you can eliminate any viruses and not contaminate the new drive.

- After last step: After you boot from the new drive, run a &quot;Thorough&quot; scan disk from the Windows/Accessories/SystemTools to check for bad sectors, etc.

 

[Vincent]

Maybe your old Pentium system is too old to recognize such a large hard drive. If you got a retail hard drive, it should come with some literature and software discussing BIOS hard drive size limitations. You might also want to look at your hard drive manufacturer's website.

I think only BIOS's dated after late 1998 could recognize the entire capacity of 8.4GB+ hard drives.