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Hi,
I just bought a new HDD (Maxtor DiamondMax10 250GB 3.0GB/s) to replace my old 160GB IDE drive...
So i hooked it up and got it reconized in windows, then formatted it...
So then i had to clone my old IDE to my new SATA.. but got nothing but problems...
First i tried a Norton Ghost 2003 boot floppy, which wouldn't even boot when i had my sata plugged in, then i tried HDClone 3.1, this one worked and succesfully cloned the sata to be identical to my old IDE...
When it was done i disabled my old IDE in the BIOS so that it would boot the new sata... but no matter what it still allways booted from my old one... And when booted from the old; i see something wierd in explorer.. not one 160GB IDE drive and one 250GB sata drive, but two 160GB drives.. what the??
So then i phyiscly removed the old 160 so it had to boot from the new Maxtor, and it did... but it came no further then the windows logon screen, just staying there not letting me to go in my desktop...
Oh yea, the maxtor does work fine when i install a fresh copy of windows...
I really don't know what to do now...
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance.
you Imaged your old 160 gig drive to the new 250gig one. Did you run the formatting and partitioning tools from the new HD installation disk from the HD manufactorer?
It sounds like the new drive was not partitioned first.
best of luck Frank :
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I believe the maxtor installation disk has a disk copy program with it.. if my memory serves me correctly. I am getting older tho lol.
best of luck Frank :
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The cloned operating system will not run on the SATA drive because it does not contain the necessary SATA drivers. When you load up a fresh instal of operating system to the SATA drive the SATA drivers are installed at that point. You may be able to overcome this by installing SATA drivers in the original operating system and re-cloning to the SATA drive. Not sure if this will work
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I don't understand why you want to swap the drives. Why not leave the system on the 160gb drive? The new drive is not going to be any faster. Ignore that 3.0GB/s, that's false advertising. Your new drive will run at under 100MB/S
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Well i know the drive isn't going to be much faster, but the problem is that the old drive is going to a friend of mine.. so that's why.
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You have two choices.
1. Keep the 160GB as your main HDD & use the SATA HDD for storage. As ham30 pointed out, the SATA HDD won't be noticeably faster.
2. Do a clean install of WinXP on the SATA HDD. As you yourself said, "the maxtor does work fine when i install a fresh copy of windows..."
"and where can i find these drivers?
You must have the drivers already (floppy disk that came with the drive?) since you apparently already did a clean install on the SATA HDD. They can't be installed after the fact, they have to be installed prior to the Windows installation.
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well first of all you have to go to maxtor website I will provide it and what you need to download. After download format the harddrive with the application, that you need to install from the website. After that it will give you options on if you want to make the drive the new boot device drive and copy all the files and operating system on the new drive. After doing that go into bios and make sure it is the first boot up device. And you have your new operating system on the new drive.
Here is the website.
http://maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=%2Fen_us%2FSupport%2FSoftware+Downloads%2FView+By+Category%2FDesktop+Storage%2FMaxtor+Other%2FUtilities&downloadID=58just copy and paste and it will bring you to the website in order to do this.
Jim R
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Don't encourage him Beginner1. We are trying to talk him into keeping the 250GB and using it for backups. :-)
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Well you've lost ham30, because the instructions Beginner1 gave me did exactly what they should :) thank you so much!
It now succesfully boots from the Maxtor with my old windows!
But i have one small problem though...
When i'm in windows (this was also on the old drive when the Maxtor was connected) i see a pictogram in the right-corner of the taskbar, the one from "remove your hardware safely" when i click on it it asks me if i safely want to remove my maxtor..
So apparently it thinks its a USB device or something.. When i first succesfully booted from the Maxtor (and i still have done it only 1 time) it was very slow when my desktop was loading, much slower then my old drive... so now i'm gonna restart and see if its the same and if it is, could this be related to the remove safely thing..?thanks.
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That site downloads the software i was refering to above. Maxblaster. It has a copy function which will copy the old OS to the new HD.
best of luck Frank :
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