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Disk Boot Failure problem
I have a WD 120 gig drive. I'm trying to move the entire contents of a
40 gig WD drive onto the 120 gig. I tried using Ghost to do an image of the 40 gig drive, then restored the image to the 120 gig drive. Once that was done, I got Boot Drive Failure--Insert Boot Disk. I used FDisk to repartition, format, restored the Ghost file, and got the same thing. I then used WD's Lifeguard utility to prepare the disk again and set it as a bootable disk and Lifeguard copied the entire contents of the 40 to the 120. Still getting Boot Drive Failure once I reboot with the 120 as the only drive present. The bios sees the drive and recognizes it as 120 gigs. If I boot with a Win98 boot disk, I can see all the files. I've tried different cables. What am I missing? Thanks. ben |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:07:49 GMT, atDFN wrote:
I have a WD 120 gig drive. I'm trying to move the entire contents of a 40 gig WD drive onto the 120 gig. I tried using Ghost to do an image of the 40 gig drive, then restored the image to the 120 gig drive. Once that was done, I got Boot Drive Failure--Insert Boot Disk. I used FDisk to repartition, format, restored the Ghost file, and got the same thing. I then used WD's Lifeguard utility to prepare the disk again and set it as a bootable disk and Lifeguard copied the entire contents of the 40 to the 120. Still getting Boot Drive Failure once I reboot with the 120 as the only drive present. The bios sees the drive and recognizes it as 120 gigs. If I boot with a Win98 boot disk, I can see all the files. I've tried different cables. What am I missing? Thanks. ben Okay, got it working. Looks like a bad cable. I rebooted with the Lifeguard utilities and it didn't see the drive at all this time. Don't think I had this cable set down well enough. Think it's time to get rid of the other cable. ben |
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"atDFN" wrote in message s.com... I have a WD 120 gig drive. I'm trying to move the entire contents of a 40 gig WD drive onto the 120 gig. I tried using Ghost to do an image of the 40 gig drive, then restored the image to the 120 gig drive. Once that was done, I got Boot Drive Failure--Insert Boot Disk. I used FDisk to repartition, format, restored the Ghost file, and got the same thing. I then used WD's Lifeguard utility to prepare the disk again and set it as a bootable disk and Lifeguard copied the entire contents of the 40 to the 120. Still getting Boot Drive Failure once I reboot with the 120 as the only drive present. The bios sees the drive and recognizes it as 120 gigs. If I boot with a Win98 boot disk, I can see all the files. I've tried different cables. What am I missing? Thanks. ben run fdisk and make sure the drive really is set active (if not, do so) otherwise...with your bootdisk try doing sys C: to make sure io.sys is really written to the bootsector and if that still does not get you going you may again need to bootup with your floppy and try fdisk /mbr |
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