I bought a new Samsung 160gb hard disk a few weeks ago to add into my xp home system. The system had a 60GB hd but was partitioned 10gb/50gb (what can I say ~ once upon a time a 10gb C drive was monstrous). I used Acronis easy migrate to mirror the old drive onto the new drive and increased the partitions. I then changed the boot priority in Bios to boot from the new Samsung Drive.
When booted up most things function. I now have C & D drives on the Maxtor old disk and F & G drives on the New Samsung hard drive. I have changed the page file from the C drive to the F drive.
The problems?
If I remove the old drive (I don’t have to but would like to know if it’s a possibility) the system boots to a blue windows screen with the XP logo and hangs.
The sound card driver has to be deleted and re installed on each new start.
I did try to change the F drive to the C drive using the XP Disk Manager but this was not one of my better ideas.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jenny
Bios settings
IDE Channel 0 Master Samsung HD
IDE Channel 0 Slave Maxtor HD
IDE Channel 1 Master Aopen CDRom
IDE Channel 1 Slave None
IDE Channel 2 Master None
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I used Acronis easy migrate to mirror the old drive onto the new drive
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that program is (i think) suppose to be used to move an OS from 1 (old HDD) to another (usually larger HDD)
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If I remove the old drive (I don’t have to but would like to know if it’s a possibility) the system boots to a blue windows screen with the XP logo and hangs.
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that is dependant on the BIOS, some BIOS’s boot from HDD last by default
[ot]do you want 1 HDD or both HDD’s on your system ?[/ot]
The BIOS is set to boot from the new hard disk and is booting up when both hard disk are connected. The problem is that I cannot remove the old drive and still have the system boot up fully
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The problem is that I cannot remove the old drive and still have the system boot up fully
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you are having problems with the bootloader in Win, what you need to do is: correct the errors in boot.ini,
to do this automatically you need to enter the recovery console (presumably your using XP SP2) just boot the XP CD and when prompted enter recovery console[ot]not sure about these RC commands, cos haven’t used XP for a while[/ot]fixbootthis will rebuild the boot.ini, or you can edit boot.ini manually[ot]carefully[/ot]
or post boot.ini here
BTW: it must be the boot.ini from the root of the fully bootable partition
I think it is the bootloader from the new hard drive because that is the one that is hanging. I have checked the boot loader on both drives and they are the same. This is the boot loader from the new hard drive.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=“Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition” /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=“Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
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timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
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timeout=30, mean your system will boot from the partition listed after “default=”
multi(0)disk = HDD 0 (primery master)
partition(1) = partition number (0 (zero) = partition number 1 (counting starts from zero with partitions (i don’t know why, they just do))
inside the inverted comma’s (“”) is just the OS name (as displayed in the bootloader)
just wait, and i’ll try to figure out your new boot.ini
If I remove the old HD ~ doesn’t the new hd become the Primary master and therefore the boot.ini would remain the same? The new HD is partitioned into two drives f and g.
right Jen,
what you need to do is: start the recoery console and log into the last OS you installed (if you installed XP Pro last, log into windows on the third partition (hd2)) then typebootcfg /rebuild then enter the relevent info (you’ll know by the question that is asked, then you will be asked to enter a unique identifier (this is just the bootloader info)
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“Microsoft Windows XP Professiona”
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to set a drive master or slave you need to set the jumper on the HDD, like this http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/4494/hd4mj5.th.gif
but your HDD may be different, there will be a label on the HDD defining how to set the drive to master or slave, of even CS (cable select)
BTW: i havent used XP for a while (about a year) i did have this problem regulaly, but have only learnt how to fix it, thanks to HWF’s
