NTFS not recognized by older bios?

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I imaged my hard drive on a scsi hard drive using NTFS, then moved that
drive to an older pentium III.

When switched on, the bios loads and the scsi controller recognizes the
drive as physical drive 0.

However, when the bios tries to start the operating system, nothing happens.

Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.

Fred
 
I imaged my hard drive on a scsi hard drive using NTFS, then moved that
drive to an older pentium III.

When switched on, the bios loads and the scsi controller recognizes the
drive as physical drive 0.

However, when the bios tries to start the operating system, nothing happens.

Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
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Has the new disk being used for NTFS and as a boot disk?

If not the image should be correct but you will be missing the master
boot sector (or similar name) try searching for ntfs+boot repair. This
should make the disk bootable. Had similar problems with older version
of win with new disk, data coppied over but no boot sector, then an
FDISK command worked. FDISK /MBR this rewrites the master boot sector
for win 98.

Hope this helps

Pete
 
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Has the new disk being used for NTFS and as a boot disk?

If not the image should be correct but you will be missing the master
boot sector (or similar name) try searching for ntfs+boot repair. This
should make the disk bootable. Had similar problems with older version
of win with new disk, data coppied over but no boot sector, then an
FDISK command worked. FDISK /MBR this rewrites the master boot sector
for win 98.

Hope this helps

Pete
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Pete,
Thanks for the help. I started it on a floppy boot disk and was able to
access the c: drive. Then I used fdisk to make that drive ACTIVE. When
I rebooted, windows began to start (YEAH) but then it stopped and gave
me the BSOD. So I restarted in debug mode and it hung when loading
drivers. So JAD was right, it still has the drivers for the other m/b.
I'll have to do a fresh load from CD. Hope the CD works.

Fred
 
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