booting to slave drive

[William B. Lurie]

I used Seagate's DiskWizard2003 to copy my whole
hard drive to a new slave drive, in the same
computer. Windows Explorer sees the Slave fine,
with 4.5 GB of OS and Program Files and all my data,
but when I change the BIOS to boot to HDD-1 instead
of HDD-0, it hangs on the way there. The boot sequence
is CD ROM, Floppy, HDD-0 (or 1), and for HDD-0, it
just sees there is no CD ROM, and no floppy, and goes
to HDD-0 and boots up there. I guess I have
to get some boot info onto the HDD-1 .....

I have my XP Pro Installation CD.....in case that's
what's needed. Advice on how to get it to boot?
Thank you.
William B. Lurie

 

[Norm]

You cannot just copy the data from one drive to another and expect it to
boot, it doesn't work that way. You need some application like Ghost, Drive
Copy or Drive Image to accomplish that.

 

[Norm]

William, sorry I missed the Seagate DiskWizard part. I never used the
utility but now I'm wondering if you can boot from your HDD-1. Have you
ever tried it before? Maybe you can move the slave to the master position
and try it.

 

[William B. Lurie]

Yes, I did, and I thought it worked fine that time. If I
did anything additional, I don't recall what it was. You're right, I
should try it jumpered as a Master, in Master position as HDD-0.
Maybe later this evening I'll give that a try.
Bill L.

 

[Nick Burns]

Disable all boot devices sept hdd1.

Yes, I did, and I thought it worked fine that time. If I
did anything additional, I don't recall what it was. You're right, I
should try it jumpered as a Master, in Master position as HDD-0.
Maybe later this evening I'll give that a try.
Bill L.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Master or Slave on the IDE cable doesn't make any difference (unless you
don't have one of each).

Seagate DiskWizard might not have done one of the following:

1) marked the partition on the cloned disk active
2) installed boot code in the first sector on the cloned disk
3) written a partition table on the cloned disk

You can set the partition active from Computer Management in XP. Try
this first, as it is simplest to do. You can boot the XP CD and select
the first repair option and run "fixboot" and "fixmbr" to fix the second
and third problems.