Hard drive migration help
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 by tjesterb | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I recently got a new HDD. I hooked it up as a slave and used Drive Image 7.0 to copy my drive C to the E partition on the new drive using the app included to clone your drive, OS and all to a new one. I ed to make the E drive bootable, according to the directions, as well. I then switched the jumper on the new drive to the Master setting, hooked up the Master IDE cable to it and tried to boot up from the new drive. However that isn't working. I entered the BIOS and confirmed that it is recognizing the new drive as the Master. How do I boot from the new drive? I want to put the old drive in a USB case and use it as portable storage.
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gizzimo
Reply #42 Saturday, July 31, 2004 3:17 PM
Reply #42 Saturday, July 31, 2004 3:17 PM
Do you realise what you've titled this thread? "Hard Drive Migration" what do these do exactly? crawl out of your computer and migrate down south for the Winter?? So... what, they come back and they now run faster because they've had to endure the cold and have had a work out sesh. Yeah so "My hard drive came back with scratches all over him because a polar bear attacked him and then half-devoured him - so... i've had to kick my hard drive out". *sigh* sorry this post is quite utterly pointless and irrelevant. Still.
tjesterb
Reply #44 Sunday, August 1, 2004 11:37 AM
Reply #44 Sunday, August 1, 2004 11:37 AM
I'm back home now. Dad is doing well, though now he has to stay home for a few weeks until he can have the second surgery.
As far as the HDD issue, I've reformatted the new drive, updated everything on my original drive, defragged, AV'ed, spyware clean etc... now I'm going to try this again. Keep your fingers crossed
As far as the HDD issue, I've reformatted the new drive, updated everything on my original drive, defragged, AV'ed, spyware clean etc... now I'm going to try this again. Keep your fingers crossed
tjesterb
Reply #45 Monday, August 2, 2004 11:10 AM
Reply #45 Monday, August 2, 2004 11:10 AM
Well, the only way I'm able to post this is by booting up with a Knoppix CD I burned a while back. I repartitioned my original drive so I could make a compressed backup to the new partition with DI7, but now I can't boot up at all,normal, safemode, anything. I guess I'll do a fresh install of Windows on the new drive and then try to figure a waay to get all my data off the old drive. This isn't exactly how I planned to spend my vacation.
Yrag, I tried booting with the DOS setup disk from the WD site [with the new drive as master] but still can't get past teh Intel screen.
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Yrag, I tried booting with the DOS setup disk from the WD site [with the new drive as master] but still can't get past teh Intel screen.
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tjesterb
Reply #46 Tuesday, August 3, 2004 9:22 AM
Reply #46 Tuesday, August 3, 2004 9:22 AM
Success!...for the most part. I had to do a repair reinstall of Windows and then use Partition Magic to change all paths from C to F [letter of my new drive] Still a few tweaks to make to restore everything. Firefox won't run except in Safemode, even after uninstalling, removing registry keys, and reinstalling. I'm still looking through the Mozilla sites for a fix. Thanks Yrag, FUzzy,Jafo and others for the pointers. I'm still not sure Drive Image is all it claims, especially now that any support has to come from the Symantec site.
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Reply #41 Friday, July 30, 2004 11:24 PM
they all have since the days of Dos 2