Re: Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe - Can't upgrade from IDE to SATA
- From: "NickM" <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:15:11 +0100
Ghost can sometimes cause problems with booting from a cloned drive with
copying the active partition information, and you should find tools to help
you overcome these on your original Ghost CD depending on the version you
are using. Otherwise AFAIK, you can download the same utilities from the
Symantec site for free.
However, that said, your problem doesn't actually sound like those that I
have experienced with cloned drives using Ghost in that they usually either
boot or they don't. To me it sounds as if here is another issue and I think
it could be with the SATA device driver. This should be present and active
on your original disk image before you Ghost it over, and although running
the repair routine in XP *should* sort it out, I would still be inclined to
install the SATA driver on your original installation. Of course it might
be something else.
Have you tried booting in Safe Mode? If that works, then you almost
certainly have a driver conflict. You could try a normal boot but log the
boot process. Reading the log of the failed boot in safe mode might give
you some clues. When the loading of fonts consistently fails, it's nearly
always a graphics driver problem. I know we're talking about a SATA drive,
but booting in safe mode and removing the IDE controller in Device Manager
might sort the problem as well (Windows will automatically reload the
necessary drivers for the IDE controller next time it boots). You may even
find that the SATA drive boots successfully after a couple of hours (Why so
long? See story below. Patience can be a virtue LOL).
A little story which is relevant but slightly OT: I had cause to rebuild an
old installation of Windows Server 2003 SBS on a donor machine to retrieve
some MS Exchange Data for a client recently. The temporary donor server
took ages to boot (I mean about 4 hours) and was only a couple of weeks
later after the successful retrieval when it was necessary to re-boot the
actual server to find it too was taking way too long (similar to the
scenario you describe). It transpired that the server with the new
installation of SBS was running an APC US with version 6 of the UPS
controller software which relies on a Java plug-in. The Java plugin
apparently was automatically updated on July 27, but was now incompatible
with the APC software. It took a little while to discover, but after
removing the APC software, the server booted as normal. It was about August
3rd when I rebuilt the original SBS image on the donor PC BTW and had
assumed that the extremely long boot time was caused by a driver conflict as
the donor PC was a completely different spec to the actual server - didn't
matter particularly as all I needed to do was recover some emails. The Java
cause wasn't particularly well documented either at that time. I don't
think the cause of your problem is the same as this BTW, but I use this
example to illustrate how something so obscure can cause all sorts of
headaches.
Regards
Nick
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