New Hard Drive

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I installed a new 140GB hardrive and used Partition Magic
8 to copy my original "c" partition to it. I removed the
original drive, set up the new one as primary but XP
won't boot from it.
How can I 'sys' that drive?
 
You can't. You must use a program like Norton Ghost or the clone software
that came with your new disk to copy your old drive to your new one.
 
Do a repair install of XP.


| You can't. You must use a program like Norton Ghost or the
clone software
| that came with your new disk to copy your old drive to
your new one.
message
| | > I installed a new 140GB hardrive and used Partition
Magic
| > 8 to copy my original "c" partition to it. I removed
the
| > original drive, set up the new one as primary but XP
| > won't boot from it.
| > How can I 'sys' that drive?
|
|
 
Did you activated the new partition that you created from partition magic?
The partition must be active in order to boot from it. From partition magic,
use right-click on partition, then Advanced, Activate...

Best regards,
 
I tried that with no luck.

-----Original Message-----
Did you activated the new partition that you created from partition magic?
The partition must be active in order to boot from it. From partition magic,
use right-click on partition, then Advanced, Activate...

Best regards,

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Microsoft Certified Professional
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Repair install would not work. Still wouldn't boot from
it even during the install...
 
What are the positions of physical drives on your primary IDE controller?
(which one is the new drive, primary master?)
 
Whwnever I switch the new drive to primary master, it
won't boot.
I used Norton Ghost to copy the image of C to the new
drive then swapped the drives (master to slave) and the
new drive booted but not as "C". It booted as "F", the
way it was before I swapped drives around. Then I
decided to use Partition Magic to change the drive
letters so the new one would be "C" (in case I ever
removed the older, smaller drive). Well I couldn't
change it to C while the original one was C so I had to
change the original first to something else (G). It
rebooted and then hung on boot up because now there was
no C drive! Why is this so difficult?
Back to square one...and feeling like a moron.
I don't want to do a full install but I could have done
that and reconfigured everything already in the time this
has taken so far....
 
I used Norton Ghost to clone the c partition to the other
drive, switched jumpers (master to slave) and rebooted
from the new drive however it boots with its drive letter
from before (F). I want it to be C. Why is this drive
still dependent on the other to boot up? I don't want
windows as the F drive...
 
johnny said:
I used Norton Ghost to clone the c partition to the
other drive, switched jumpers (master to slave) and
rebooted from the new drive however it boots with
its drive letter from before (F). I want it to be C.
Why is this drive still dependent on the other to
boot up? I don't want windows as the F drive...
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The partition signatures recorded in the registry are screwing you up.
Remove the slave (old), get yourself a Win98 boot floppy, boot from the
floppy, run the command "fdisk /mbr", remove the floppy, and reboot.
See if the new hard drive now comes up as C:. If you want to use the
old drive as a slave, that's okay, but first get the system up and
running with only the new drive. (If you don't have a Win98 boot
floppy, go to www.bootdisk.com and download one.)
 
You did everything write, except that you don't want the old hdd connected
on the first boot.
Try the same procedure again with this advice included?
 
Johnny,

The proper way to do this is to set your BIOS to boot 1st from the CD and
put your WinXP CD in the drive and boot from it.

If you boot from CD and then choose Repair Install, it should work.

You can't boot from HDD and then run the Repair Install to solve your
problem.

HTH
 
That didn't work. It gets to the windows boot screen and
does not load any more from there, presumably because it
is still looking for the other C drive.
 
Johnny said:
That didn't work. It gets to the windows boot screen and
does not load any more from there, presumably because it
is still looking for the other C drive.
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Did you try the solution I gave you last week?

Repeat:

The partition signatures recorded in the registry are screwing you up.
Remove the slave (old), get yourself a Win98 boot floppy, boot from the
floppy, run the command "fdisk /mbr", remove the floppy, and reboot.
See if the new hard drive now comes up as C:. If you want to use the
old drive as a slave, that's okay, but first get the system up and
running with only the new drive. (If you don't have a Win98 boot
floppy, go to www.bootdisk.com and download one.)
 
I installed a new 140GB hardrive and used Partition Magic
8 to copy my original "c" partition to it. I removed the
original drive, set up the new one as primary but XP
won't boot from it.
How can I 'sys' that drive?
Click to expand...

For XP to boot from the new Hard disk, it MUST be a Primary Partition
NOT an Extended partition (as those cannot be booted from), also you
need the NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, BOOT.INI on the boot drive and the drive
made active (use the diskpart.exe program).

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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