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

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?

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

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