Recent content by waxy

well, guess what. i found the problem all on my own and NO ONE had the right answer for WHY it will operate but not boot. and you'll never guess. Ok..... this is weird. when i first cloned the drive with Norton Ghost 14 i told it to 'resize the new partion' in the process. yesterday, trying...

CORRECTION: WinXP SP2 4 gb ram 60GB IDE FAT32 (multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="PIDE1) 465GB SATA FAT32 (multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="SATA1) bare bones DOS for accessing files outside of windows

Update: ...... i hate windoze..... it's member is both micro and soft....... found a copy of winxp sp2 did winnt32.exe /cmdcons but it installed the recovery console to the IDE drive instead of to the SATA drive. did a fixboot but, even though i was logged into the sata\windows and specified...

bump. can backing up the mbr or boot sector from another sata computer and restoring it on this one fix the problem? do you need the actual winxp cd to do boot fix or would the i386 folder be enough? is there a 3rd party software that can get my winxp to boot from the sata drive?

because i have more software on the old drive than i still have install programs for. (survived a fire about a year ago. lost A LOT of my equipment and disks) so i'd have to install, upgrade to SP2 atleast, copy over the C:\program files, copy over the c:\windows, export/import the registry...

PS: i'm sorry i didn't find your faq before i started this process. :(

Alright.... what i did and where i'm at first: upgraded my hardware, including a new SATA drive. Started the computer, removed bad drivers and installed the updated drivers. got everything perfect (yes, windows has no problem at all seeing the sata) ghosted the IDE single partition drive to the...