Unable to boot Win2k after disk copy
- From: Edward Diener <eddielee_no_spam_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:40:33 -0400
My initial setup:
2 40 GB Hard Disks off of HPT 374 Raid controller, with Raid not implemented. BIOS set to boot off of the Raid controller and the Raid controller set to boot off of the first hard disk. Under Disk Management the first hard disk is Disk1, second is Disk2 ( Disk0 is a zip drive off of my IDE controller ) . Win2K NTFS system ( C: ) is partition 2 of Disk1. A shared FAT32 partition between Windows and Linux, mounted as c:\WinLinux, is partition 3 of Disk1. An extended partition, which is partition 2 of Disk2 holds a logical NTFS partition ( H: ) and another logical NTFS partition ( D: ). My boot.ini has a single OS displayed:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNTNEW
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNTNEW="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
I buy 2 160 GB Hard Disks and install them as the next drives in the Raid controller. Again I am not using Raid at all but have been using my hard drive under the Raid controller so that I can free up the 4 slots of my IDE controller for DVD drives, Zip drives and the like. The order of drives in my Raid controller now looks like:
HDD0 - 40 GB ( Boot ) HDD1 - 40 GB HDD2 - 160 GB HDD3 - 160 GB
and this corresponds to
Disk1 Disk2 Disk3 Disk4
under Win2k Disk Management.
I boot into Win2K. I can now see HDD2 as Disk3 and HDD3 as Disk4 in Disk Management. I disable as much startup programs using anything on my H: and D: drives as I can, and use a utility ( Drive Backup Professional from Paragon Software ) to copy Disk2 to Disk4. I then direct Win2k to change the drive letters for h: and d: to point to my new hard disk. This takes a few boots, but finally I am up and running with Disk4 now having my H: and D: drives. So far so good.
Now I want to move my Win2k system drive, HDD0/Disk1 to my other 160 GB drive, HDD2/Disk 3 and then tell me Raid controller to boot off of HDD2. I am not going to change boot.ini since once I boot off of HDD2, it will just take the place of HDD0 as the boot drive. I do the copy ( using Drive Backup Professional 7.0 again ), and it does it under Win2k using a Hot Backup feature. I then reboot my system, go into my HPT 374 controller's BIOS, and tell it to boot off of HDD2. Now the order of my drives under the Raid controller is:
HDD2 ( Boot ) HDD0 HDD1 HDD3
Remember that HDD2 is a replica of HDD0 and that HDD3, not HDD1, now contains my H: and D: drives from before, so I should need nothing from HDD0 and HDD1, my two 40 GB drives. It seems I should be OK. I start the boot process for Win2k but after an initial screen with the progress bar and an initial graphical screen, where the system will now go into the screen where the username/password is displayed, instead I get a stop error saying that the registry has an error and the system quickly reboots.
Does anybody know what might be happening here ?
Is the registry expecting something else for the layout of the drives ?
Thank you ! .
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