hard drive boot problem

[SMatson]

I just bought a new WD Raptor and used drive image to copy my C: to it. The raptor was drive E:. Even though the copy drive process went through, I cant boot from it. How do I get it to boot?


Any ideas?

Thanks,

Scott

 

[MrControversial]

How did you go about copying the data? Did you just cut everything from C: and paste it to E:? If so, that won't make a bootable drive. You need a ghosting program to image one disk to the other. Perhaps your disk manufacturer included software with that capability. Perhaps they have it on their website for download. Cut and paste doesn't copy the boot sector of the hard disk. You knew it was too easy when you were doing it, didn't you?

 

[SMatson]

I used the copy drive function of Drive Image. It is supposed to be used for upgrading drives.

Thanks for your reply.

Scott

 

[stevty2889]

Have you made sure that the raptor is set as the first boot drive in BIOS, and tried booting with the PATA drive disconnected?

 

[SMatson]

Yep. Tried the above.

I do appreciate the help.

Scott

 

[MrControversial]

Did you change the jumper on the PATA drive?

 

[stevty2889]

Changing the jumper on the PATA drive would have no effect, SATA is one drive per channel, and on a differant interface, so it could care less what the jumper on the PATA drive is set to..

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Don't know about drive image, but some imagers (cloners) do not copy the system files if the new drive is a slave to the old boot drive. Look for the boot files. Would be Command.com and hidden files IO.sys and Msdos.sys on older windows. Up to Win98 you can Boot from a starup disk and type SYS C: from the A:> prompt. Jim

 

[SMatson]

Would that be the Master boot record? There was an option to copy that as well.

Do you think the drive letter has anything to do with it?

Thanks,

Scott

 

[LED]

On the boot IDE Drive have the Raptor hooked up and then install the SATA drivers...After that Ghost/Image the Drive over.

 

[Woody419]

Did you install the SATA drivers BEFORE you cloned the drive? If not you are going to have to re-install windows.

"Because Windows XP does not natively include SATA drivers, when you attempt to boot from the new, cloned SATA hard drive, you'll discover that Windows XP will not load. To prevent this, be sure to enable the SATA controller in the BIOS and load the drivers into Windows before cloning...."

Read More Here

edit: Need the SATA driver instructions ?

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, No, MBR (master boot record) was setup when you Setup the drive and formated it. The files I refer to are necessary to get everything going and does use the MBR. Wouldn't hurt to copy it. Same thing as FDISK /MBR. SYS C: is the same as FORMAT C: /S. I would try to clone the drive with it setup as master and the old one as slave. Not sure you can do that, but also worth a try. What OS are you using? Jim