HD install problem

[Pdigmking]

OK, my HD saga continues to plague me.

I decided to replace my could-be-ailing Maxtor HD with a bad sector. I
replaced it with a Samsung HD with a 2MB buffer.

The maxtor was an 80gig drive, the Samsung is a 160gig drive.

I hook up the new drive, run Maxtor's drive clone program to move the data
from the old to new drive. It appears to work. When install the new drive
as the main system disk, it hangs and restarts. It loads until it gets to
that part where the "Windows XP" shows up, you know that part where the
little blue (or green) LED's things run from left to right in a little bar
towards the bottom of the screen. That stops, and the whole thing re-
boots. It will load in safe mode, but can't get it to load in normal mode.

This is a soyo motherboard with a socket A, 1 gighrz AMD CPU. 133 bus
speed with 1.3 of RAM.

I do have a program, MigrateEasy version 6. But that doesn't work for some
reason, it keeps hanging. I may just need to upgrade to version 7 to get
it to work better with XP.

Any thoughts?

Paul.

 

[Conrad]

OK, my HD saga continues to plague me.

I decided to replace my could-be-ailing Maxtor HD with a bad sector. I
replaced it with a Samsung HD with a 2MB buffer.

The maxtor was an 80gig drive, the Samsung is a 160gig drive.

I hook up the new drive, run Maxtor's drive clone program to move the data
from the old to new drive. It appears to work. When install the new drive
as the main system disk, it hangs and restarts. It loads until it gets to
that part where the "Windows XP" shows up, you know that part where the
little blue (or green) LED's things run from left to right in a little bar
towards the bottom of the screen. That stops, and the whole thing re-
boots. It will load in safe mode, but can't get it to load in normal mode.

This is a soyo motherboard with a socket A, 1 gighrz AMD CPU. 133 bus
speed with 1.3 of RAM.

I do have a program, MigrateEasy version 6. But that doesn't work for some
reason, it keeps hanging. I may just need to upgrade to version 7 to get
it to work better with XP.

Any thoughts?

Paul.

My suggestion would be to ( as I'm sure you've done) set the
jumpers on the new drive as "master". Next I would do a fresh
install of Windows XP to the new drive. With the old drive set
as slave transfer your valuable data to the new primary drive.
Obviously, all applications would have to be reinstalled and
net/internet setups freshly configured.

For example, Windows XP doesn't have a great respect for drives
with 32 bit format and in many instances will not even recognize
anything beyond 32 Gigs. That was my problem when I installed
the very same type of drive you're installing (HD160JJ). So I
did what I'm suggesting to you and never had a problem after.
Don't forget, your OS is set to the original Maxtor drive so
that when you boot to Windows on the new drive, XP is still
trying to load the Maxtor drive but can't.

However, it could be something else. For example, using a
Maxtor utility to install to a Samsung drive is also a very
questionable process. It doesn't always work.

 

[Pdigmking]

However, it could be something else. For example, using a
Maxtor utility to install to a Samsung drive is also a very
questionable process. It doesn't always work.

Problem solved. I went out and grabbed an update for the MigrateEasy
program. That did it, everything worked the way it was supposed to and I'm
writing you with my new HD. You were right, it was that Maxtor program
that messed me up.

Thanks for the input

Paul.

 

[Conrad]

Problem solved. I went out and grabbed an update for the MigrateEasy
program. That did it, everything worked the way it was supposed to and I'm
writing you with my new HD. You were right, it was that Maxtor program
that messed me up.

Thanks for the input

Paul.

You bet.

 

[JAD]

glad you got it, but I believe your problem was 2 drives with active
partitions.

 

[Bob M]

Problem solved. I went out and grabbed an update for the MigrateEasy
program. That did it, everything worked the way it was supposed to and I'm
writing you with my new HD. You were right, it was that Maxtor program
that messed me up.

Thanks for the input

Paul.

I have found that the Maxtor program is great when transfering files
from an old Maxtor drive to a new Maxtor drive. Any other brand of drive
and Maxblast seems to have a problem. I'm glad you got your problem solved.

Bob

 

[Pdigmking]

glad you got it, but I believe your problem was 2 drives with active
partitions.

I think your right, I recall finding that when I booted up in safe mode and
checked my disks in system administator. Problem is, I didn't know that
was a problem, and can't say I really know what that means. Fortunately, I
got it running, they make these programs for nim-rods like me who can get
into safe mode... but then look at and say: "yep.. just what if figured...
theres a computer in there".

Paul.