Re: Cannot transfer system to new hard drive - Help!


"Phyllis O." <Phyllis O.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EC857D6B-E172-4F7F-89E2-08D531BD12CB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi, for several weeks now I have tried to transfer my Win XPhome partition
on
> a 60 GB IBMdeskstar to a 200 GB Maxtor with absolutely no success. The
Bios
> recognizes the new Maxtor at 203 GB. The Computer is a Dell 8250 (2003),
512
> RDram. The utility that came with the Maxtor drive will not work on this
> computer after reinstalling, downloading from Mfg. website and again
> reinstalling several times over. However, the same utility does work
> correctly on one of my other computers. Maybe this signifies a problem
with
> my system. I have used Norton Ghost 9 at least 5 times to copy the
partition
> to the new drive with the options of setting the new drive active and
copying
> the MBR. I have also used Recovery Console to "fixboot" and "fixmbr".
Each
> and every time, after swapping the new drive over to the master position
and
> leaving the old drive disconnected, the new drive will not boot. It only
> goes to the Dell splash screen and stops. I have partitioned with the
WinXP
> disk management tool, with Partition Magic 8 and then copied with Ghost 9
and
> Partition Magic. Same result. Just before trying any of these
procedures, I
> did a reinstall of WinXP to correct any problems.
> I am very frustrated at this point. I am looking forward to the
capacity
> and speed of the new Maxtor. I would appreciate any suggestions. I
don't
> know what else to do. Thanks so much.
> Just a note: I contacted Maxtor Customer Service about this problem
and
> they were not able to help. Hope someone here can.
>
>

When you write "It goes to the Dell splash screen" then I assume that
you're talking about the screen generated by the BIOS, before WinXP
starts. If so then you could try this as a first step:

- Format a floppy disk on some other WinXP/2000 PC.
Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work. And don't
create a boot disk - just format a disk!
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your WinXP CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines
[Boot Loader]
Timeout=3
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
- Boot the machine with this floppy

What do you get?


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