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How to make new drive bootable?

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mybrainisawaffl

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Yo,

I got a 250gig Seagate SATA for christmas, and I wanted to clone my POS 40gig
ATA 133 Maxtor, and just have the Seagate in my system. Used some program called Paragon Drive Backup to copy the partition, but when I boot with just the Seagate in, it says, "Error Loading Operating System." Am I missing a step, or is there a better way to go about this?
 
It might not have carried all of you windows files over I normally use the software that comes with the new hard drive to set it up. you might try recopying the stuff over with the program that came with your hard drive.
 
Downloaded Seagates utility, no luck. Got the same, "Error Loading Operating System" message.
 
Did you set first boot to SCSI ?
I assume that the drive was allready installed and formatted before the copy so the SCSI driver was present in windows.If you have to much trouble , try Maxtors copy tool's.They are quite good.
 
I have a SATA drive, not a SCSI drive. First boot is set to the SATA drive. I'll try out Maxtor's utility.
 
Maxtor's did help either, even though I followed the instructions to make the new drive the bootable system drive. This is pretty damn frustrating, there must be something that can do what I want?
 
Your old operating system was on a PATA drive connected to your IDE Controller & your new drive is a SATA connected to your SATA Controller which would require you to install a SATA Controller DRIVER during a normal install process. Although both PATA & SATA are IDE drives the operating system will require you to install a third party mass storage device driver which most is probably what you need to do.

A fresh install is a better option for you & remember to ahve a floppy drive connected with floppy containing the drivers. You will see a prompt at the first setup screen "PRESS F6..." & then wait until the setup screen prompts you to insert a floppy.
 
Sonny said:
Your old operating system was on a PATA drive connected to your IDE Controller & your new drive is a SATA connected to your SATA Controller which would require you to install a SATA Controller DRIVER during a normal install process. Although both PATA & SATA are IDE drives the operating system will require you to install a third party mass storage device driver which most is probably what you need to do.

A fresh install is a better option for you & remember to ahve a floppy drive connected with floppy containing the drivers. You will see a prompt at the first setup screen "PRESS F6..." & then wait until the setup screen prompts you to insert a floppy.


Unless he is RAIDing, he won't need a SATA driver (granted his XP is up to date). Windows sees SATA drives as ordinary disk drives just as it sees IDE drives. Though if he has a SATA controller card (VS a mobo with native SATA support) he may need to install drivers.

I agree about a fresh install, a new hard drive deserves better than an old, clogged up OS install :cool:
 
Was the drive installed in windows prior to the copy process? did you format through disk management and make the partition active?
Windows sees the drive the same as IDE,however the bios sees it as SCSI.Is there an option to enable sata rom in bios so that it can be bootable? Do you see the SATA bios load during boot? Have you entered the SATA bios to see that the drive is shown and there are no conflicts there?
Normally when Windows complains that there was an error loading the OS,It maens there was no bootable media found like when you leave a floppy in that is non bootable.What I mean is,even if the drive is seen it may not have an active partition or it is not enabled in bios.Can you post the model number of the E Machine?
 
K15 said:
Unless he is RAIDing, he won't need a SATA driver (granted his XP is up to date). Windows sees SATA drives as ordinary disk drives just as it sees IDE drives. Though if he has a SATA controller card (VS a mobo with native SATA support) he may need to install drivers.

That's the thing, not all MoBos have native SATA support integrated into the chipset. It may have a third party controller built in to the MoBo but that still doesnt mean it is native.

Windows will always see SATA as IDE be it native controller or third party controller. What windows is unable to do is make the controller itself function.
 
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