Re: New HDD Installation

Do as Ron suggested, if it works it's the easiest way to get your installation up and running again.

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

Note that you may have to press the F6 key early in the setup process and have the Maxtor SATO/150 PCI Card drivers on a diskette so that the setup program may load them and properly identify your disc. See here for information on storage controller drivers and Windows setup: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314859

Another quick check you can try is to see if you can boot the computer with a startup floppy diskette. See here for information on how to create such a disk: http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/ Note that with your hard disc on the Maxtor controller you will probably have to edit the rdisk value in the boot.ini file, you can use the MAP ARC command in the Recovery Console to get the proper ARC path and rdisk value for the boot.ini file. See here for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_map.mspx?mfr=true

John

JohnH wrote:
If I understand you correctly you want me to try and do a fresh install of the Windows XP w/SP2. It would take awhile but I am willing to start fresh if it gets the new HDD in and the small out. I just have a few questions before doing this.
1. The Windows XP was an upgrade from the Windows Me that was installed in the system and all I got was a restore disk. Do I need the Windows Me disk?
2. Can just booting the the XP upgrade work without an OS in place?

3. Do you know if it is reccomended to disable the motherboard IDE or just leave on auto?





"Anna" wrote:


"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 news:C70B85D8-8350-442A-A606-BA4501408D09@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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