windows 2000 replace hard drive

[wingman]

Hello

I want to replace my old 20G IBM hard drive with 80G western digital
(WD800JD)
but it hangs in the startup windows screen, it never gets to the login
screen.

Here is my computer config.

PIII 600
10G IBM
40G Seagate (win2k server installed)
20G IBM (want to replace this driver with new 80G drive)

40G and 20G seagate are connected to Promise 66 DMA card.

My system is muti-boot, I install win98, winNT and win2K.
win98 and winNT do not have any problem with the new driver, only
win2k got hang in startup.

Please help
Wing

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello

I want to replace my old 20G IBM hard drive with 80G western digital
(WD800JD)
but it hangs in the startup windows screen, it never gets to the login
screen.

Here is my computer config.

PIII 600
10G IBM
40G Seagate (win2k server installed)
20G IBM (want to replace this driver with new 80G drive)

40G and 20G seagate are connected to Promise 66 DMA card.

My system is muti-boot, I install win98, winNT and win2K.
win98 and winNT do not have any problem with the new driver, only
win2k got hang in startup.

Please help
Wing

Your post is a little confusing. You say several times that
you "want to replace the hard drive" but you never say what
you actually did. Did yo connect the new drive as a slave
drive? Did you copy anything? How did you copy things?
What disk configuration do you have now?

Furthermore: When you boot into Win2000, how far does
the boot process go? What messages do you see? And
which drives are the various operating systems installed
on?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Modify c:\boot.ini so that you can see where the boot
process stalls, by adding the /SOS switch:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=3
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect /sos

You should also try to boot in Safe Mode.