Re: New HDD Installation

"JohnH" <JohnH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I bought a Western Digital 160GB Caviar SE EIDE Drive. My motherboard
is older so I was instructed to add a Maxtor SATO/150 PCI Card so the
full capacity of the HDD would be detected. I connected it and copied the
old drive over to it. After completion I was instructed to disconnect
the
old and put the new in it's place. Upon restart it ask for a boot disk
to
be installed. When I bought the system it had Windows ME on it and I do
not have a software disk but I was given a restore disk. I later
upgraded
to Windows XP w/ SP2. Can I use the restore disk or the Windows XP
upgrade disk as the boot disc. The support from Western Digital states
that it may
need to be done and some not, so I am confused as to how to make this as
quick and painless as posible. I also would like to know if disabling
the the
primary IDE off the motherboard in the CMOS would help too.


"Ron Sommer" wrote:
The new disk needs a boot sector.
If you just copied the partition, you didn't get the boot sector.

You can run fixmbr and fixboot.
--
Ronald Sommer


"JohnH" <JohnH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I used the HDD Installation Tool software to copy the partition from the
old drive to the new, I guess that would be a clone. The transfer seemed
uneventful and removal of the old drive was done. It seems to be asking
for a boot disk upon reboot once the old drive is removed. Can the
Windows ME
restore disk be used? Can the Windows XP w/SP2 upgrade be used? Anymore
advice would be greatly appreciated.


"Rich Barry" wrote:
John, you may have a setting in the Bios for that Maxtor Card. In
there will give you the ability to select the boot disk.
How did you copy the old drive to the new? Did you image it or clone
it?


"JohnH" <JohnH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How is this done? Once it is connected it requests a boot disk at
start-up.
Thanks for any help you can provide.


JohnH:
Maybe it's a good idea to start from the beginning, OK?

1. Your old HDD booted without incident and functioned without any problems
when it was installed, right? Its only problem was its small disk capacity,
right?

2. Now you've purchased a large-capacity WD SATA HDD and a SATA controller
card for connecting that SATA HDD, yes? And you've installed the SATA
controller card with no problems, right?

3. Setting aside the disk copying program (Maxtor? WD?) you used to copy the
contents of your old PATA HDD to the new SATA HDD...
How about making a fresh install of the XP OS onto your SATA HDD? Will it
boot & function without any problems if you do this?

Would it be possible for you to do this and then install your programs on
the freshly-installed XP OS? I assume you would have no problem copying over
your user-created data from the old HDD to the new SATA HDD, right? Or is it
too impractical to fresh install all your programs onto your new SATA HDD?
Anna


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