Unable to get new SATA drive to boot

@if ®afiq

@if ®afiq

@if ®afiq

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I have purchaed a 1TB WD SATA II drive for use on my XP SP2 system with a DFI NF4 Lanparty mobo.

The drive is picked up by disk management and also Partition Magic, however after making it active and restoring an image of my main drive on to it, it fails to boot.

I use Drive Image to restore an image I have of my main C drive and set the option to make the new drive active - it is also marked as active in Disk Management.

The BIOS is also picking up the drive so I'm stumped on this and it is set as the first drive to boot from.

Any ideas? :)
 
What happens when you try and boot the system? BSOD? nothing?

What kind of drive was the image taken from? Another SATA drive?
 
Have you still got the other drive on the system?
If you have remove it and try with the drive on its own if that work then the problem is the old drive will be set to active as well and a lot of Bios cant handle it as it sees 2 active drives and cant decided which to boot from.
To set the second drive inactive try (there are loads of things to set a drive active but few to set it inactive)
Open up a command prompt and type DISKPART.

Type LIST DISK
Type SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the old Win98 drive)
Type LIST PARTITION
Type SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the active partition you wish to make inactive)
Type INACTIVE
Type EXIT to exit DISKPART
Type EXIT again to exit the command prompt
Reboot
 
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