Hi, I bought a new Samsung 160gb hard disk a few weeks ago to add into my xp home system. The system had a 60GB hd but was partitioned 10gb/50gb (what can I say ~ once upon a time a 10gb C drive was monstrous). I used Acronis easy migrate to mirror the old drive onto the new drive and increased the partitions. I then changed the boot priority in Bios to boot from the new Samsung Drive. When booted up most things function. I now have C & D drives on the Maxtor old disk and F & G drives on the New Samsung hard drive. I have changed the page file from the C drive to the F drive. The problems? If I remove the old drive (I don’t have to but would like to know if it’s a possibility) the system boots to a blue windows screen with the XP logo and hangs. The sound card driver has to be deleted and re installed on each new start. I did try to change the F drive to the C drive using the XP Disk Manager but this was not one of my better ideas. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jenny Bios settings IDE Channel 0 Master Samsung HD IDE Channel 0 Slave Maxtor HD IDE Channel 1 Master Aopen CDRom IDE Channel 1 Slave None IDE Channel 2 Master None HD Boot Priority 1 Samsung 2 Maxtor 3 Bootable Add-In Cards
that program is (i think) suppose to be used to move an OS from 1 (old HDD) to another (usually larger HDD) that is dependant on the BIOS, some BIOS's boot from HDD last by default [ot]do you want 1 HDD or both HDD's on your system ?[/ot]
Hi Donkey, The BIOS is set to boot from the new hard disk and is booting up when both hard disk are connected. The problem is that I cannot remove the old drive and still have the system boot up fully Thanks for your reply Jenny
you are having problems with the bootloader in Win, what you need to do is: correct the errors in boot.ini, to do this automatically you need to enter the recovery console (presumably your using XP SP2) just boot the XP CD and when prompted enter recovery console[ot]not sure about these RC commands, cos haven't used XP for a while[/ot] Code: fixboot this will rebuild the boot.ini, or you can edit boot.ini manually[ot]carefully[/ot] or post boot.ini here BTW: it must be the boot.ini from the root of the fully bootable partition
I think it is the bootloader from the new hard drive because that is the one that is hanging. I have checked the boot loader on both drives and they are the same. This is the boot loader from the new hard drive. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Thanks again for you help Jenny
[ timeout=30, mean your system will boot from the partition listed after "default=" multi(0)disk = HDD 0 (primery master) partition(1) = partition number (0 (zero) = partition number 1 (counting starts from zero with partitions (i don't know why, they just do)) inside the inverted comma's ("") is just the OS name (as displayed in the bootloader) just wait, and i'll try to figure out your new boot.ini
If I remove the old HD ~ doesn't the new hd become the Primary master and therefore the boot.ini would remain the same? The new HD is partitioned into two drives f and g. Thanks again for you help
right Jen, what you need to do is: start the recoery console and log into the last OS you installed (if you installed XP Pro last, log into windows on the third partition (hd2)) then type Code: bootcfg /rebuild then enter the relevent info (you'll know by the question that is asked, then you will be asked to enter a unique identifier (this is just the bootloader info)
more/full explanation..... [link=http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/ref/jumper_settings.html]Here[/link] from Seagate... Edit: Fcuk, I always link others to this website but never bother to read myself.:doh: It has answers to so many other questions....
