help me set new drive up

porkrind · 18 Aug 2006 at 18:42

got a new 250m drive and i want to transfer my cuurent c:\ off my old drive to new drive how do it,

i have norton ghost
paragon hd manager

i can copy data onto it, but it wont boot

SiriusB · 18 Aug 2006 at 18:47

Have you set the new drive as the priority boot in your BIOS?

Also what kind of drives are they? SATA or PATA [IDE]?

SiriusB

porkrind · 18 Aug 2006 at 19:03

sata yer and i pick it in boot order as i boot

porkrind · 18 Aug 2006 at 22:05

its a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

i have done ghost copy to it do i have to asign a drive letter to it?

SiriusB · 19 Aug 2006 at 00:41

The drive should just work and the system boot as normal. It might make some complaints because the drive is bigger but nothing serious. Not sure why its not working. Was your old drive SATA? If not perhaps your Windows installation doesn't have any SATA drivers and so doesn't know how to use your new HDD.

SiriusB

porkrind · 19 Aug 2006 at 07:55

orignal drive was a 120gb sata WD drive new is 250gb sataII i have tried numerous times to copy partiton over data is there ut when i boot it says disk read error.

porkrind · 19 Aug 2006 at 08:49

new drive is showing up in CHS mode in the bios?
other drive is LBA

I have tried setting new large in bios but i get scrambled garbage at IDE dectection page.

plz help i got this drive to be my main C:\ drive as its faster than my old WDC drive.

porkrind · 19 Aug 2006 at 09:44

i have data on new drives 1st partition but it wont boot from it

Trigger · 19 Aug 2006 at 10:16

Edit: Ignore me

Edit2: Missing SATA drivers would be my bet. You could try doing a repair install on the new drive

porkrind · 19 Aug 2006 at 19:35

I buggered it up cant boot from neither now! I have a norton ghost image but cant get that to work , so i'm here via ubuntu live cd

stupid drives all i want is to get my old partion back , looks like i have lost it