Replacing SCSI boot disk with IDE

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I Gateway 6400 server with Windows 2k server & Active Directory installed on a 2 gig partition of a 9 gig SCSI drive. I want to image the drive to a 10 gig partiton of an 80 gig IDE drive. I can Ghost the image no problem, but when I try to boot to the IDE drive I get an error of No OS. I Fdisk /mbr to reset the Master Boot Record but still no IDE boot. I was told that when the OS is installed on a SCSI drive it remembers that controller and cannot be switched to IDE. Is this true? Or can I change someting manually?
 
D Johnson said:
I Gateway 6400 server with Windows 2k server & Active Directory installed
on a 2 gig partition of a 9 gig SCSI drive. I want to image the drive to a
10 gig partiton of an 80 gig IDE drive. I can Ghost the image no problem,
but when I try to boot to the IDE drive I get an error of No OS. I
Fdisk /mbr to reset the Master Boot Record but still no IDE boot. I was
told that when the OS is installed on a SCSI drive it remembers that
controller and cannot be switched to IDE. Is this true? Or can I change
someting manually?
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Boot from the CD, run the recovery console, and run fixmbr and fixboot to
set up the boot sector.

What does your boot.ini look like?


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