[Solved] Need Some Advice

[jackal969k]

My friend's OS is WinME. His 30 gig Maxtor HD was starting to go bad so he wanted to install another Maxtor 30 gig that he bought.
I installed the new HD and did a drive to drive copy which went ok and all the info got transfered to the new drive. I unhooked the old drive (defined as C), set the jumper on the new drive (D) to master. It will not boot from the D drive. If I hook the old drive back up along with the new drive it boots just fine. Like it is booting from the old drive and then the new drive takes over.

I want to be sure that it will boot from the new drive before I wipe the old drive clean. He wants to keep the old drive in the system too so that he can use it for extra storage until it craps out. He doesn't intend to put anything crucial on it.

What do I have to do to get it to boot off the new drive? Do I have to go into the bios and change something and if so
what do I need to change?

Thank you in advance for your help!

 

[Rockn]

HOw did you "Copy" the contents of the old drive to the new one? If you just did a copy in DOS it won't work. You need to use some sort of cloning software like Ghost.

 

[jackal969k]

Hi Rockn. I used a utility called Drive2Drive. It copies all of the contents of one drive to another. The new drive has all the files and folders etc. that the old drive had.

 

[Triple6]

I'm not familiar with Drive2Drive, you may want to clone the drive again. This time connect the new drive as Secondary Master, put it on the second IDE channel in place of the CD-ROM's, and have the old drive as Primary Master on the fist IDE. Then try cloming the drive with Maxtor's MaxBlast3 utility: http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm

Then make sure you jumper the new drive as Master and make sure that in the BIOS setup that the new drive's settings are being detected by doing the IDE Detection or setting the drive to Auto.

 

[jackal969k]

Thank you for your reply Triple6. The DrivetoDrive utility seems to have done the job just fine. I did have to change the jumpers around and go into the Bios to do what I wanted to do and it solved the problem.

http://www.fssdev.com/products/free/

The above is where I got the Drive2Drive utility from if you want to check it out.

Thanks for your reply!