Hard Drive Replacement

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Monark

I just tried to install a Western Digital harddrive. I
used their disk to disk copy, as I wanted the new drive
to be the boot disk. I have the new drive at the end of
the cable and the older drive in the middle, and both
drives are in cable-select.

When I rebooted, the computer booted off the old drive
and named it C: and the new drive was then D:

It appeared that the contents of the two drives were the
same.

I pulled on the old drive, and rebooted. The BIOS
recognized the missing drive and gave me the "chance" to
go back into setup, where I turned the Primary IDE drive
1 to off (the new drive was Primary IDE drive 0).

SO, now when I boot up, the first windows XP screen comes
up and goes a while, and then the pretty blue Windows XP
screen with the logo apear, but it stops there and no
accounts show up. I still have mouse control, but the
system is unable to do anything.

Is this part of the XP security system? I am not sure
where to go from here, so I have pulled the new drive out
and put the old one back in for a while.

FYI: In the original installation, I did have an older
3rd hard drive I took out in order to install the new
drive and copy over the system.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks
 
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If I'm following what you did, it sounds like you didn't put the new
drive in exactly the same place (jumpered the same and on the same
connector) as the old drive was. Have you tried moving the new drive to
the same connector that the old drive used to occupy?
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I have the new drive in where the former resided, which is
the "black" connector at the end of the ribbon cable, and
that former drive was moved to the "grey" connector, in
the middle of the cable.

The "blue" connector is still at the same IDE interface on
the motherboard.

They system was operating on cable select before, so I
assumed it is OK now.
 
Dan -- I think you've about got the situation

Original Setup:

Primary IDE 0 = 40GB HD (IBM) C: (End of Cable)
Primary IDE 1 = 13GB HD (Maxtor) D: (Middle of Cable)

Beginning of New Drive Addition Project:

Primary IDE 0 = 80GB HD (WesternDigital) End of cable
Primary IDE 1 = 40GB HD (IBM) Middle of cable

Did the "disk clone" and rebooted.

Computer indicated C: was 40GB Hard drive and D: was 80GB
hard drive. System appears to work with 40GB HD in
middle of cable. My goal is to have the 80GB HD as C:
and bootable, so that I can put the 13GB drive back as D:
(Side note: replacing 40GB HD as I think it is about to
go dead)

Next Step:

Removed 40GB Hard drive from middle of cable.
System boots but stops with the pretty XP logo (no
accounts available as in original setup). At this point,
only the 80GB HD is installed.

Next Step:

Angry nothing works right. Pull out 80GB HD and put the
40GB back at end of cable and 13GB back of cable. System
is working fine.

Your theory on the system registry seems to make some
sense.

Thanks for any help you can give me!
 
Monark said:
Original Setup:

Primary IDE 0 = 40GB HD (IBM) C: (End of Cable)
Primary IDE 1 = 13GB HD (Maxtor) D: (Middle of Cable)

Beginning of New Drive Addition Project:

Primary IDE 0 = 80GB HD (WesternDigital) End of cable
Primary IDE 1 = 40GB HD (IBM) Middle of cable

Did the "disk clone" and rebooted.

Computer indicated C: was 40GB Hard drive and D: was 80GB
hard drive. System appears to work with 40GB HD in
middle of cable. My goal is to have the 80GB HD as C:
and bootable, so that I can put the 13GB drive back as D:
(Side note: replacing 40GB HD as I think it is about to
go dead)

Next Step:

Removed 40GB Hard drive from middle of cable.
System boots but stops with the pretty XP logo (no
accounts available as in original setup). At this point,
only the 80GB HD is installed.

Next Step:

Angry nothing works right. Pull out 80GB HD and put the
40GB back at end of cable and 13GB back of cable. System
is working fine.
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Okay, I think I follow what you did now. I'll assume your bios is set
to boot from Primary IDE 0 first.

Try recopying IBM-->WD. Remove Maxtor, insert WD in its place, make
sure bios is setup to properly recognize WD. Do NOT boot into Windows.
Boot from WD floppy (I'll assume "Data Lifeguard Tools v10"), choose to
install new HD and copy IBM to WD. Shutdown, remove IBM, put WD in its
place at end of cable, leave middle connector empty. Power up, make
sure bios is setup for IDE0/IDE1 changes, and see if WD boots up as C:.

The goal is that we want XP to forget that it previously saw the WD
disk. I'm guessing here, but I think WD's copy utility may rewrite the
Disk ID in the WD's master boot sector. If that's true, then recopying
will effectively make XP think this is a different disk than it had
previously recorded in the registry. If this doesn't work we can edit
the registry to force XP to forget the partition signatures, but we may
be able to avoid that if the WD utility does what I think it might.
 
I have a similar problem. I used Norton Ghost to copy my
40 gig onto the 80 gig. I cannot boot to the 80 gig
without having the 40 gig also installed. I need to
figure out how to copy the proper certificate to my D:
drive so when I pull the 40 gig I will be able to boot to
the 80 gig. In addition, XP tries to install drivers for
the 80 gig every time I boot. In Windows server 2003, it
will recognize the 80 gig no problem.
 
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