Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)
I've just copied a system partition from a PATA drive to a SATA drive, but
can't get it to boot. I've tried FIXMBR, FIXBOOT and BOOTCFG /REBUILD from
an XP rescue disk (these all seem to work), yet the screen just goes black
after the BIOS message.
The WinXP partition did NOT have the "F6-RAID-drivers" loaded from floppy at
install time. (If this is the problem, is there any way I can install them
now without re-installing XP?)
Thanks for any suggestions...
Pete
For more complete info, this is what I did:
1) Starting with XP on PATA...
2) Plug in brand new SATA drive
3) XP recognises it. Create a partition table & a blank partition. Shutdown.
4) From a Knoppix live CD, use 'dd' to copy the FAT32 system partition from
PATA drive to SATA drive.
5) Remove PATA drive
6) Boot from XP Pro CD to a rescue prompt
7) Issue FIXMBR, FIXBOOT and BOOTCFG /RESCAN commands
8) Boot from SATA drive
9) arrrrgh, doesn't work.
I've just copied a system partition from a PATA drive to a SATA drive, but
can't get it to boot. I've tried FIXMBR, FIXBOOT and BOOTCFG /REBUILD from
an XP rescue disk (these all seem to work), yet the screen just goes black
after the BIOS message.
The WinXP partition did NOT have the "F6-RAID-drivers" loaded from floppy at
install time. (If this is the problem, is there any way I can install them
now without re-installing XP?)
Thanks for any suggestions...
Pete
For more complete info, this is what I did:
1) Starting with XP on PATA...
2) Plug in brand new SATA drive
3) XP recognises it. Create a partition table & a blank partition. Shutdown.
4) From a Knoppix live CD, use 'dd' to copy the FAT32 system partition from
PATA drive to SATA drive.
5) Remove PATA drive
6) Boot from XP Pro CD to a rescue prompt
7) Issue FIXMBR, FIXBOOT and BOOTCFG /RESCAN commands
8) Boot from SATA drive
9) arrrrgh, doesn't work.