Copying old drive onto new SATA drive

Scythe

<div class="IPBDescription">SATA won't boot.</div>Mobo: ASUS A8N-E - Latest BIOS
Old hard drive: ATA133 PATA 200 gig
New hard drive: Seagate SATA 250 gig
Other hard drive: Seagate SATA 250 gig

Old hard drive is primary master IDE, other hard drive is SATA#1, new hard drive is SATA#2.

I've used Partition magic, norton ghost and seagate's own disc copying program, all to copy my old hard drive (including MBR) to the new hard drive. All have copied over fine but none of the copies have been bootable. I've tried installing a fresh copy of windows XP on the new sata drive, installs fine but afterwards, won't boot. It gets as far as asking if I want to boot from a CD then says "Operating system error" or something along those lines.

Boot order in bios is CD -> HDD -> nothing. HDD is set to the SATA disc, which is recognised fine by the bios.

Windows recovery console detects the bootable installation at C:\windows\ on the new drive, I've tried fixing the boot sector/MBR about a dozen times in half a dozen different ways to no avail.

I'm certain there's some stupid little thing I've overlooked that would make this new SATA drive bootable, but I just can't find it. Any help would be good.

--Scythe--

P.S. I'm replacing this old ATA133 hard drive so it can go into an NS server I'm building, so this is kinda NS related.

BlueNovember

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->"Boot order in bios is CD -> HDD -> nothing. HDD is set to the SATA disc, which is recognised fine by the bios."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
1) Is "Boot other" enabled?

2) Did you install 3rd party RAID drivers when you installed XP?

3) Make sure that "USB keyboard support" & "USB mouse support" are set to "bios"


This will probably be no use, as you already have the drive visible in bios, but meh;
5) Try setting the drive to sata1 support using the jumper setting.
<a href="http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/sata/100417178a.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguide.../100417178a.pdf</a>
(I think that should contain the info, but acrobat has decided I need to re-activate it, so won't read it. ******* piece of software.)

Hope this helps.

Scythe

BlueNovember: That also occured to me, setting it back to SATA1, didn't have any effect though.

It doesn't matter though since:

<a href="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1256634#1256634" target="_blank">http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/mo...1256634#1256634</a>

FIXXOR'D! It was some stupid little niggily bios thing.

500 gigs of hard drive space = winnar.

--Scythe--

BlueNovember

<!--QuoteBegin-"Scythe+ on other forum"--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("Scythe @ on other forum")</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It turns out that I just had to specify "Large" instead of "Auto" in a bios setting pertaining to that hard drive to make it bootable. Go figure. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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Bizzare. Ty for linking the answer though.

PS: 620 Gb for the win. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Zerotech

Heh Scythe, 500 gigs = winnar, as soon as they are set to Raid-0 it'll be 500 gigs = lose <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Btw so what has PS_Mouse been upto these days? is he still continuing on with the 2 maps he was working on?

Mouse

I think that's a conversation that'd more appropriate for PM (ie. not relevant to this thread at all)

But to answer your question. I've stopped working on both of those maps, ns_attrition has been put away for now and ns_lucid was completed. As for what I'm up to now, I'm about to go get a some parts so I can (finally) upgrade my computer. You should see some Source and Q4 stuff from me in the future.

And since this thread has served its purpose, I get to lock it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />