Cannot boot from new drive

[lbeachmike]

Hey folks -

I have a bootable Win2K installation on an old PATA drive that I want to remove from my system and replace with my shiny new Seagate 750 gig drive.

I used Seatools to copy over the Win2K installation, yet the Seagate drive will not boot - it does not find the OS. The drive is fine, and everything looks to be in place, but it doesn't boot. I can still boot from my old Win2K drive.

Both drives are not my primary drives, but backups. I simply like to have a standby bootable Win2K for the rare case that I need to test something on Win2K.

Any thoughts? Have I overlooked something really obvious?

Thanks.

Mike

[Sterling_Aug]

Is the new drive also PATA or is it SATA?

Are the jumpers set properly?

[lbeachmike]

No jumpers - It's a SATA drive - I'm pretty sure they're not making 750gig PATA drives (then again, i could be wrong about that!)

And yes, I've gone into the BIOS and made it the first choice drive to boot from. I've gone so far as to disconnect all other drives to make certain it's booting from this one, and it is.

[Sterling_Aug]

You can't copy a PATA drive to a SATA drive and expect it to be bootable.

Do a repair install of Windows and press F6 to install the SATA drivers.

[lbeachmike]

Aha! That makes a lot of sense ... in other words, the original install has everything at boot-up other than the SATA drivers to boot a SATA drive ..... correct?

The repair install you are suggesting - is that all I need to do? Simply run a repair install, press F6, install the SATA drivers and then I'm done? I don't recall repair install being quite that straightforward.

I'm surprised that Seatools would overlook this - it's rather straightforward and does not present any caveats or prerequisites and I'd imagine this is a rather common application.

mrk

[Sterling_Aug]

It shoud be that simply. I did it on two machines already.

[lbeachmike]

Hey guys -

I've finally gotten around to trying to get this working, but I need further instruction.

When I do a repair install as described above and choose F6, I'm able to select the SATA drivers and have them load.

What subsequent options are needed in order for repair to permanently install these drivers into my Win2K installation?

Thanks.

Mike

[Sterling_Aug]

Nothing else special is needed. Once the drivers are installed after pressing F6, then let Windows go completely thru the repair install process, download all of the Windows Updates again, and you are running.

Every repair install will require the drivers to be installed again from the floppy, so keep it handy.

[lbeachmike]

OK - so you are suggesting to go through the automatic full repair process. However, I have no rescue disk for this OS install, and it Windows repair complains that it is unable to find a Windows 2000 installation to repair.

However, if I go to the recovery console, it shows me two identified Windows 2000 installations, which is correct.

Why is it not detecting the Win2K installation? The drivers definitely do the trick, because the file system is visible with the drivers (in the console) and otherwise inaccessible.

Thanks.

Mike

[Sterling_Aug]

It sounds like the Windows install is corrupt.

Do you have a spare hard drive? You could setup Windows on it then slave the old drive to copy your data.

You can try these ideas, but I would hold my breath.

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