Problem "Un-cloning" a new HD

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Dave

Wanted to replace my (full) primary HD with a larger one. Cloned a new
drive
as an external, replaced original internal with the new drive. Had some
minor
problems with the cloned drive (more on this later), decided to go back and
clone the new drive a second time.

Removed new cloned drive, replace with original.

Now when I boot with the original, I get, after a VERY long pause, "Primary
drive not found - Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run Setup Utility"

If I hit F1, the system continues to load just fine. Explorer shows
everything as it should be, Device Manager shows no problems, this device
working properly, etc., etc.

The original HD was jumpered as cable select. Also tried jumpering as
master (only). No joy.

FWIW - originally, I had a second internal HD which I have left out until
this present situation is straightened out.

Have rearranged the BIOS boot sequence - no help.

Any suggestions as to what's going on would be appreciated.

Dave
WinXP SP2 Dell 3000 EIDE (internal HD currently on ribbon end connector
position)
 
Dave said:
Wanted to replace my (full) primary HD with a larger one. Cloned a new
drive
as an external, replaced original internal with the new drive. Had some
minor
problems with the cloned drive (more on this later), decided to go back and
clone the new drive a second time.

Removed new cloned drive, replace with original.

Now when I boot with the original, I get, after a VERY long pause, "Primary
drive not found - Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run Setup Utility"

If I hit F1, the system continues to load just fine. Explorer shows
everything as it should be, Device Manager shows no problems, this device
working properly, etc., etc.

The original HD was jumpered as cable select. Also tried jumpering as
master (only). No joy.

FWIW - originally, I had a second internal HD which I have left out until
this present situation is straightened out.

Have rearranged the BIOS boot sequence - no help.

Any suggestions as to what's going on would be appreciated.

Dave
WinXP SP2 Dell 3000 EIDE (internal HD currently on ribbon end connector
position)
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Check the bios settings, it may have the other drive manually set.
Change detection to "auto" if it is not set as such
 
Before you do to much troubleshooting consider a different/new ribbon cable.
The possibility exists that it broke during the flexing that takes place
while switching drives around. It happens sometimes.

D
 
Dave said:
That's a thought.

Looks like all disk detections are set to 'Auto'

Anthing else????

Dave
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Maybe you dropped it or zapped it with static. ...not likely, but it's the
next most likely thing after the cable.

-John O
 
Dave said:
Wanted to replace my (full) primary HD with a larger one. Cloned a
new drive
as an external, replaced original internal with the new drive. Had
some minor
problems with the cloned drive (more on this later), decided to go
back and clone the new drive a second time.

Removed new cloned drive, replace with original.

Now when I boot with the original, I get, after a VERY long pause,
"Primary drive not found - Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run Setup
Utility"
If I hit F1, the system continues to load just fine. Explorer shows
everything as it should be, Device Manager shows no problems, this
device working properly, etc., etc.

The original HD was jumpered as cable select. Also tried jumpering as
master (only). No joy.

FWIW - originally, I had a second internal HD which I have left out
until this present situation is straightened out.

Have rearranged the BIOS boot sequence - no help.

Any suggestions as to what's going on would be appreciated.

Dave
WinXP SP2 Dell 3000 EIDE (internal HD currently on ribbon end
connector position)
Click to expand...

The reason you are getting this msg. is because you have taken out your
second HD (it doesn't matter if it was the boot drive or just for storage) I
ran into this recently when I cloned my HD.
Solution put the HD back in or hit f2 when prompted go into the bios and
look around (bios may be different so directions for mine won't help) for
the option to turn off the port for the second HD.
Good Luck
 
Dave said:
Wanted to replace my (full) primary HD with a larger one. Cloned a
new drive
as an external, replaced original internal with the new drive. Had
some minor
problems with the cloned drive (more on this later), decided to go
back and clone the new drive a second time.

Removed new cloned drive, replace with original.

Now when I boot with the original, I get, after a VERY long pause,
"Primary drive not found - Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run Setup
Utility"
If I hit F1, the system continues to load just fine. Explorer shows
everything as it should be, Device Manager shows no problems, this
device working properly, etc., etc.

The original HD was jumpered as cable select. Also tried jumpering as
master (only). No joy.

FWIW - originally, I had a second internal HD which I have left out
until this present situation is straightened out.

Have rearranged the BIOS boot sequence - no help.

Any suggestions as to what's going on would be appreciated.

Dave
WinXP SP2 Dell 3000 EIDE (internal HD currently on ribbon end
connector position)
Click to expand...


your removed the other drive, so go into the bios and set the second drive
to NONE and your problem will go away
Clark...
 
MIKE - CLARK - DOUG - BILL - PHILO et al

THANK YOU ! THANK YOU ! THANK !

LIFE IS GOOD

Guess leaving out the second HD wasn't such a time saver after all - that
was it. But thanks everybody for good suggestions - I was really going down
the tubes.
My reward is now I can proceed to a second shot at screwing up the re-clone.
Sigh -

Thanks again

Dave
 
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