Re: A Problem With Replacing a Windows XP Computer System's Disk Drives
- From: "Rich Barry" <rbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:33:28 -0700
Sorry Rich, about that link. I saw Procedure for and thought that's
what it was. I don't know if it's feasable to image or
transfer a raid array from one set of drives to another. Frankly I have
never heard it done. I think that's why you get a lack
of response for your post.
"RRTRACKS" <u34362@uwe> wrote in message news:7570c4478cdd6@xxxxxx
The problem is transferring everything on my current hard drives (4) onto
a
replacement set of hard drives (2). The reason I am doing this is because
I
have been getting bad cluster reports. This is a problem I have recently
asked assistance for on this board. Because there was not any assistance
given I thought that describing the problem with a little less discussion
might be more productive. There is just one comment I would like to make
before continuing. The reason I am asking for help is because I know next
to
nothing about Windows as should be obvious by some of the just plain nutty
things I have done.
The relevant components of my current computer system consist of the
following:
OS: Windows XP Home
HDs: Four IDE 250GB drives in two Raid 0 Arrays
Raid Controller: Silicon Image Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller
MB: Asus P4800-E (Uses the Intel 865PE chip set)
Processor: Intel P4 3.2 GHz
Memory: 2GB DDR2 3200
According to Disk Manager the arrays are partitioned (In GBs) as follows:
Set 1: 22 (OS); 9; 5, and 269
Set 2: 467
Set 2 is where I have been getting the bad clusters. So far I have not had
any observable problems with either Windows or any of the programs I have
been running.
The replacement drives I wish to use are two Seagate SATA 500GB drives
utilizing the MB controller.
The most recent attempt to transfer the drives consists of the following
partitions (In GBs):
Drive 1: 49 (OS), and 416
Drive 2: 7; 7, and 450
A summary of the most relevant efforts and the resulting problems follow.
Partitioning and formatting just one drive with either Seagate's or
Windows
software resulted in the following problem. A disk copy of the operating
system to the new partition with Norton's Ghost including the MBR would
not
work.
The progress bar would do its thing, the Windows XP Home Screen would be
displayed and then a blue screen similar to the next normal start up
screen
would be displayed. It differed from the normal start up screen in that it
did not briefly display the message, Windows is Starting, and did not
contain
the text "Windows Home XP", just the text " Microsoft Windows" with the
same
screen. At this point the boot process would lock up.
Using the software provide by Seagate to copy the boot partition was
successful in getting the computer to boot to the Desktop. However upon
copying the data to the second partition using either the utilities
provided
by Norton or Seagate caused the same problem with the boot sequence
described
above. The drive letters of the data added to the additional partition
were
the same. As the problem I am having is occurring before Windows even
starts
up this would not seem to be an issue.
Any thoughts about what might be causing this problem or thoughts about
how
to deal with it with even a best guess approach would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
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