This is driving me really mad, I hope some of you guys can suggest a solution.
I'm trying to upgrade my hard disk from a Seagate Barracuda 160GB to a Seagate Barracude 400GB. Both are PATA. My system is a shuttle SN41G2v2, which has the nForce2 chipset on it. I'm using the mobo HDD controller. Bios seems to report it ok.
I don't have space in the unit to put in both hard disks, as I have a card reader in the floppy bay, so I need to make this drive bootable.
The first thing i tried was Seagate's drivewizard software to clone the old disk onto the new one. It claimed I didn't have any Seagate hard disks installed (!!!) so quit with an error message. So i found Driveimage XML and copied the contents over from the old one to the new one, after partitioning and formatting in the windows drive management doo-dah. That worked fine - copied over all the files, and i could read them off the new drive no problems. So I connected the new disk onto the primary controller by itself, and removed the old disk. The computer claims the drive isnt' bootable.
So I got out a windows XP CD, booted off that into recovery console and re-partitioned the disk (it said it was not partitioned at all!!) and reformated it, then tried installing windows on the disk. That proceeds ok until it gets to the reboot stage, at which it says the hard disk isn't bootable!!
I'm really stumped and hope someone can help with this. It's got me really frustrated.
I'm trying to use the drive as a single partition, dunno if this is the problem? The old one was partitioned into 100 and 50 GB drives. Can't remember why i did that tho.
I'm trying to upgrade my hard disk from a Seagate Barracuda 160GB to a Seagate Barracude 400GB. Both are PATA. My system is a shuttle SN41G2v2, which has the nForce2 chipset on it. I'm using the mobo HDD controller. Bios seems to report it ok.
I don't have space in the unit to put in both hard disks, as I have a card reader in the floppy bay, so I need to make this drive bootable.
The first thing i tried was Seagate's drivewizard software to clone the old disk onto the new one. It claimed I didn't have any Seagate hard disks installed (!!!) so quit with an error message. So i found Driveimage XML and copied the contents over from the old one to the new one, after partitioning and formatting in the windows drive management doo-dah. That worked fine - copied over all the files, and i could read them off the new drive no problems. So I connected the new disk onto the primary controller by itself, and removed the old disk. The computer claims the drive isnt' bootable.
So I got out a windows XP CD, booted off that into recovery console and re-partitioned the disk (it said it was not partitioned at all!!) and reformated it, then tried installing windows on the disk. That proceeds ok until it gets to the reboot stage, at which it says the hard disk isn't bootable!!
I'm really stumped and hope someone can help with this. It's got me really frustrated.
I'm trying to use the drive as a single partition, dunno if this is the problem? The old one was partitioned into 100 and 50 GB drives. Can't remember why i did that tho.