Well, today I installed my new 80Gig raid Athlon XP 8K3A+ system. I couldn't believe how smoothly everything went, from putting the motherboard into the new Antec Performance case and installing all the peripherals. I do need some fan adaptors. Amazing, truly amazing speed coming from a 850mhz celeron.
I was just thinking how well everything had gone when I tried to transfer some data. It would've been easy if I'd had a spare NIC but I had two go bad and hadn't realized that I had no more spares. So I hooked up the "old" hard drives to the new system. The "old" hard drives were NOT raided. The system kept trying to boot into the "old" XP OS, and I know I got a System Commander warning about the boot sector being modified, and I did say 'yes'. This was all definately the old system because I do not have System Commander installed on the 'new' system. Unfortunately, though, XP from the "old" drives kept giving me fatal errors because I guess all the components are so different.
So now it was time to boot into the "new" OS and read the data from the two "old" drives as though they were just partitions. I couldn't stop booting into the "OLD" OS no matter what boot priority I selected - HD0 or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4. At that point I unplugged the "old" drives totally and removed them and their IDE cable. Now I cannot boot at all. I get "DISK BOOT FAILURE." I tried running Windows XP recover, which tells me that it could not find any hard drives attached to my system. Yet, I hear them spin up...and the RAID administrator BIOS does come up and show me the drives. I tried to reselect one to be the 'boot' drive but it does not re-write the information, it seems to be assuming that the information is correct and does nothing.
So I'm stuck. Do I have to reinstall from scratch?
Facebook
Twitter