Hard drive upgrade in Win2000

[Juan]

Hi guys, I was trying to upgrade my 20gig hard drive with
win200 pro to an 80gig disk. I used my western digital
software to format, partition and copy my files to the new
drive I created 4 20gig partitons. Anyway, when I tried to
boot from my new drive, I get the following error:
"Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you
on with the default profile for the system. Detail -
Incorrect Function." This then kicks me back to the login
screen. This was also followed by a pagefile not present
or not large enough, but I took care of that by booting
with my 20gig drive with the 80gig as slave and setting a
size for the pagefile on the 80gig. I tried to recopy the
20gig drive using Symantec Ghost and going Disk to Disk,
but this had the same results. Can someone help me with
this or give me the right process for upgrading my hard
drive in Windows 2000?

Thanks
..

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

Can someone help me with
this or give me the right process for upgrading my hard
drive in Windows 2000?

Thanks
..

You have encountered the dreaded Moving To New Hardware Bug in W2K -- a bug
that MS considers a feature. The following Bruce Chambers post will guide you
to relevant articles. Bookmark the MS support website - you will need it
again.
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From: "Bruce Chambers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.hardware
Subject: Re: New Computer, but W2K refuses to run
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:43:17 -0600

Greetings --

Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one
(same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need to perform a
repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least (and don't
forget to reinstall any service packs and subsequent hot fixes):

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Win2K Upgrade Changes and What It Doesn't
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952

If that fails:

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different
Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q2
49694

Bruce Chambers

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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

I just built a new computer - Athlon2.6 Ghz. When I tried
to swap my current, and not old, hard drive into my new
machine it won't run. I reinstall back into my old
computer, Duron 1 Ghz, and the operating system works
fine. A reinstall into the new machine still causes
problems and I cannot even go into safe-mode without a
crash. Any ideas to assist this migration without
reformatting?

Thank you,

David

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Best Wishes,
Wolf Kirchmeir, Blind River ON
"Not that brains are everything --
you'll also need a skull to put them in." (Nancy Franklin, 1997)
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[Benn Wolff]

SwitchHardDrives
To move your existing Windows2000 installation to another hard drive:

Install a parallel copy of Windows (If the boot drive isn't NTFS, 98 will
work) or move the hard drive to another PC.
Boot to the parallel install.
Copy the entire drive to the new drive (xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /r/i/c/h/k/e).
Move the hardware, do a repair install to initialize the boot sector.

 

[Eric Gisin]

first, don't use the drive setup software. it will work for single partition
setups, but nothing complex.

ghost works fine and can create partitions. your problem is the os drive
letter changed. this happens when you leave both drives attached after
ghosting. it also happens if the partition layout is different or unusual.

See Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;249321

| Hi guys, I was trying to upgrade my 20gig hard drive with
| win200 pro to an 80gig disk. I used my western digital
| software to format, partition and copy my files to the new
| drive I created 4 20gig partitons. Anyway, when I tried to
| boot from my new drive, I get the following error:
| "Windows cannot load the user profile but has logged you
| on with the default profile for the system. Detail -
| Incorrect Function." This then kicks me back to the login
| screen. This was also followed by a pagefile not present
| or not large enough, but I took care of that by booting
| with my 20gig drive with the 80gig as slave and setting a
| size for the pagefile on the 80gig. I tried to recopy the
| 20gig drive using Symantec Ghost and going Disk to Disk,
| but this had the same results. Can someone help me with
| this or give me the right process for upgrading my hard
| drive in Windows 2000?
|
| Thanks
| .
|
|