Re: Dual boot disk replacement



"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "frank" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C7E3F083-5F0E-4BBE-9051-A926CA912621@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I am trying to replace a failing disk on a Windows dual boot system and
> after
> > copying all of the files and attempting to boot to the new drive I receive
> a
> > disk configuration error message and Windows 2000 will not boot.
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > Computer Dell Dimension 4100
> > Disk 0 - Master - drive C: contains the Windows Me operating system and
> > assoicated files. This disk is not being replaced.
> >
> > Disk 1 - Slave - drive D: containes the Windows 2000 operating system and
> > associated files. Old drive is 45GB replacement drive is 80GB. I've used
> > the software supplied with the drive in Windows 2000 to create a new
> > replacement boot drive. I did this by having both the old and new drives
> in
> > the system and booting to Windows 2000. When I remove the old drive and
> > substitute the new drive in its place, tI receive the boot selection
> screen
> > and select Windows 2000 - then after a pause I get the disk configuration
> > error message. Going back to the old disk restores operation of Windows
> 2000.
> >
> > Frank
> >
>
> How exactly did you copy the old disk to the new disk? You mention
> "software supplied with the drive" (which works independently of
> Windows!), and you also say "I did this . . . by booting to Windows"
> (which implies that you performed the copy process from within
> Windows).
>
>
>

The disk drive manufacturer provided a CD-ROM with a Windows and a DOS based
setup program. I've used both with the same results. With the windows based
program, I booted to Windows 2000 and installed and ran the program from
there. It let me select whether this was a boot drive and what the partition
configuration would be. It then automatically went through a process of
copying all of the files. When I replaced the old drive with the new drive,
I got the error I described.

I also used the DOS version (I think it was called Candelara dr2 or
something like that). That software also allowed me to select that this was
a boot drive and it copied all of the files. Results were the same.

I also tried partitioning the drive as a non-boot drive and copied all of
the files using this utility with the same results.

I've reinstalled the old disk with the new one as a secondary slave and
booted into Windows 2000 properly (the old drive still works) and checked the
winnt\system32 folders on the copied drive to be sure that the NTOSKRNL.exe
and hal.dll files were both available and they are.

The way the failure occurs is that I get the os boot menu and make a
selection. The screen then goes black for about 30 seconds before the error
message appears. The error message is:

"Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware
configuration problem.

Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check the boot path and disk
hardware.

Check Windows 2000 documentation about hardware disk configuration and your
hardware reference manuals for additional information."

Since I can read the system files on the new drive, it appears that the
drive is working ok and since the old drive sill boots up properly, it seems
that the boot process that goes to the drive is still working .... so I'm
completely stumped???

One other thing ... I've looked at the drives in the disk manager and this
is what they show:

Disk 0 Basic 38.16 GB FAT32 Healthy (System)
Disk 1 Basic 42.09 GB FAT32 Healthy (Boot)
Disk 2 Basic 74.53 GB FAT32 Healthy (Active)

I hope I've not been too long winded. Thanks for your help.


.

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