Failure to boot from new IDE: old C is SCSI. /windows is on D - SATA

S

stu

I am trying to use Seagate's disk wizard to install a new drive and
replace the boot "c" drive on my system. "C" is a SCSI drive that only
has the bootloader and a few small files. The windows directory is on a
fast SATA drive "D."
The Seagate software only lets me transfer drive D to the new IDE drive.
If I manually transfer files from C I can not boot from the IDE drive. I
tried to boot to the rescue console and fixmbr (new-ide:) and fixboot
(new-ide:) but that didn't work.
How can I make my system boot from my new IDE drive once the
old/slow/tiny SCSI is removed?
(Yes I set the BIOS to boot from IDE)
I know this is an unusual setup with SCSI C as system boot, and SATA D
as /windows /program files drive. I would like to replace the SCSI with
the new IDE as the drive that has the bootloader, and will be called C.

Thanks for any hints!
 
P

peterk

Make Bootable
1) the IDE partition has to be a primary partition before this can work.
If it's not a primary you cannot boot to it directly.
2) you have to set the IDE partition as active. ( only primary
partitions can be set as active)
In recovery console you need to:
3) you need to run fixboot to write the bootsector
4) you need to run fixmbr to write the master boot record
5) you need to copy NTLDR and Ntdetect to the root of the drive
6) You need to run bootcfg /rebuild to create a new boot.ini file. ( this
option is only available in recovery console)

peterk
 

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