On 06/05/2012 4:41 AM, W wrote:
> I am trying to transfer the boot partition from a Windows XP SCSI drive to a
> RAID 5 SATA volume on an Addonics Compact RAID enclosure. I created a
> large RAID 5 on the Addonics Compact RAID, and then I used a disk partition
> management utility to make an image copy from the boot partition on C: to
> the Addonics Compact RAID partition. I made the copy before Windows
> boots, so there is no issue here about files on the source partition being
> locked or used. The image made was a perfect copy of the original.
>
> After creating the new boot partition, I disconnected the SCSI drives and
> attempted to boot from the new partition. Even when I specify the new
> partition explicitly as the boot device in the system bios, all attempts to
> boot from it give back the error that it is not a system disk, and the boot
> process for Windows never starts. Is there a trick to making Compact RAID
> the boot device on a Windows system? Perhaps some adjustment needs to be
> made into boot.ini? Perhaps I need to explicitly disble BIOS in the
> Adaptec host adapter?
>
> There is no BIOS boot environment for the eSATA card I am using, which
> appears to be based on the Silicon Image 3124 chipset.
Have you set the "Active" bit on the new partition?
Yousuf Khan
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