Problem: Imaging single IDE to SATA RAID - reboot loop

[DarkMallard]

:bang head

I have a 2003 Server running on a single IDE drive. I just installed a 2-port SATA RAID controller, so I want to just image the IDE drive to the new SATA disks and get rid of the IDE. I'm using WDS to do the imaging, but hopefully that doesn't matter.

It images the IDE drive just fine and deploys the image just fine to the SATA RAID disks. However, on first boot using the SATA disks, it never even seems to start the boot process, no errors, just reboots, then the reboots just loop forever.

Here's what I've tried so far to correct it:

1. I have verified that all of the data images just fine TO the new SATA disks
2. Copied the Boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT off of a known-good SATA install of 2003 to a floppy or bootable-USB, and tried booting from that to see if it would point to the SATA disks - no go
3. Tried imaging to just ONE of the SATA disks on the RAID controller (no RAID running). It images just fine and the data is there on the disk, but it still reboot loops

I'm hoping I'm missing either the SATA or RAID drivers off of the OS install that didn't exist on the IDE drive, but I'm not certain where to start with fixing that.

Anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

DarkMallard

[Joeteck]

1. Boot with the original single drive first.

2. install the drivers for the raid card, reboot.

3. Re-image the drive, and then boot off of the RAID.

Currently Server 2003 does not know about or have the drivers installed for the RAID card..