Re: Hard Drive Upgrade glitch

Sometimes.

Not always.

I'm fully aware of 48-bit LBA and all of it's implications.

In the cases I have seen [ALL of the cases I have seen, and that's a lot .... I'm a college instructor in IT], Windows starts to boot and you get the first two screens (the black screen and then the almost solid blue screen) and it hangs forever there. Fixmbr and Fixboot won't fix that problem ... it's gotten past anything that those will fix. It has to do with the system security descriptors, I think, and the fact that the drive you are booting from is not the same drive that Windows WAS installed on. However I have not figured out why it only happens SOMETIMES.



BillW50 wrote:
In news:cb50b$48608e1d$16412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Barry Watzman typed on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:03:06 -0400:
This often happens with Windows. Windows knows what drive it's
installed on and if you "copy" or "clone" it to a new drive (Ghost,
Drive Image, Acronis, etc.) the new drive may not work (won't boot).
But it doesn't always happen, only sometimes. And I don't know why
sometimes but not always.

Pdigmking wrote:
Hello,

I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital
HD that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to
copy the drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy
appeared to go well although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the
new drive and fired up the computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating
System" or something like that. The jumper setting is on default (no
jumpers) which is master drive. In setup the drive is recognized,
it just won't boot up. Connections are good. Any ideas?

Barry, under the Recovery Console command (Windows XP install disc). The following two commands should fix that problem.

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:

If you have a HD larger than 130GB and you don't have a Windows XP with any Service Packs install CD, don't try the above. As it probably will corrupt the HD. It can be fixed, but what a PIA.

BOOTCFG /rebuild

I am not sure what the BOOTCFG command all does. but that might help too.

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