got a new hd ghosted the old drive to the new one. now my comp won't boot with the new hd in. i can access the file son the new hd so tha dat xfered but i can't boot. these drives are all sata and 'm running xp and body got any ideas?

10/8/2007 5:43:28 AM

in my experience sata drives are always treated as raid arrays, either jbod or otherwise. you probably need to go into your raid manager and set the bootable flag on your new drive. fixboot and fixmbr off a windows install cd probably wouldnt hurt either

10/8/2007 8:18:09 AM

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"in my experience sata drives are always treated as raid arrays, either jbod or otherwise"

do what????

10/8/2007 9:00:57 AM

yeah, thats why sata is hotswap in most implementations

10/8/2007 6:30:47 PM

How is it not booting? Any error messages? Are you getting to a point where you get a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner? If so you are missing the master boot record. I've had ghost do that to me in the past.

You can repair it in the recovery console. Boot with the windows install media - repair the windows installation - start the recovery console. Type "fixmbr" when you get a prompt - reboot.



[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 9:03 PM. Reason : -]

10/8/2007 9:02:29 PM

yea i thought it had something to do with the mbr i'll try that

10/8/2007 9:12:44 PM