Can't boot from new HD - help needed

[Richard S]

I am trying to replace a 30GB master HD on my Dell 4100 with a 200 GB
drive. I am running Win2K Pro, SP 4.
The procedure I tried was:
- installed Intel Application Accelerator v2.3 on the 30GB master, to
enable 48 bit LBA support for drives over 137 GB;
- installed the new 200GB drive as a slave, mounted it and formatted
it. Windows recognized both disks, and reported the full 200 GB for
the new drive;
- used Western Digital's Data Lifeguard program to copy everything
from the 30 GB master to the new 200 GB, to create bootable clone of
the 30GB drive (Data Lifeguard also made some registry changes to
enable 48 bit LBA support)
- removed the 30 GB drive and installed the cloned 200 GB drive as the
master.
Both drives are NTFS. The BIOS sees the new drive, but reports it as
137 GB, and the computer won't boot from this drive.

Any suggestions for what I could or should be doing to make this work
would be appreciated.

Richard

 

[Roberto Ruiz]

Richard, I don´t know why your BIOS is not reporting the
full capacity of your drive, maybe it´s a little old, I
think you should check if there is an update for it at
Dell´s site and proceed to update it, this might be the
problem (Remember that updating a BIOS is a brief but
delicate and risky proces) Otherwise, the process you
followed seems to be OK, although to to enable 48 bit LBA
support all you have to do is edit the registry and create
a value REGDWORD called EnableBigLba = 1 in
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters.
Maybe the issue is on the cloning process ( I´ve never
seen ths WD Data Lifeguard so I can´t tell you anything
about it)
If you are willing to start with a clean install (wich I
would recommend in your case) just put put your 200Gig
drive as primary master (leave the old one disconnected
for the safety of your data) and make a clean install of
W2K, if possible with SP4 slipstreamed, after you have
Win2K SP4 intalled clean, edit the registry to enable big
LBA and when you reboot your drive will be recognized as
200 Gig. Then install your apps and copy your data from
the old disk. This worked fine for me, I hope it helps you.

Roberto Ruiz
Brainbench MVP for WinNT Workstation
http:\\www.brainbench.com

 

[Richard S]

Roberto:

Thanks for your advice. As an interim step, I removed the new 200 GB
drive, and put the original 30 GB drive back as the primary drive.
The computer now boots from that drive. I also replaced the original
secondary drive (a 100 GB drive that I didn't mention in my original
post - I removed it when I was cloning the new 200 GB drive). This
has restored things to the configuration I had before I got the new
200 GB drive.

The 100 GB secondary drive is recognized correctly by the BIOS, but
not by Windows. Disk manager does not recognize it as a volume, and
reports no layout, type or file system. Disk manager does include it
on the list of storage devices as "Disk 1, Dynamic, Foreign", with no
partition information, and with a yellow warning sign. Device manager
reports that both disks are installed and working correctly.

I thought I should be able to swap secondary drives in and out without
any problems, but this does not seem to be the case.

I would like to get this original configuration working properly
before I go any further. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Richard