Technology- Hard Drives
posted in Technology |I just went through hell today trying to get my hard-drive switched over to the new one. The Seagate software
didnt work automatically- when I followed their directions after the copy was done I switched the new drive
to be the master and the computer would come up and say “Error Loading OS”. Luckily the net came to the rescue
and about an hour of Googling gave the following result.
I used a WinXP disc, booted into the recovery console and tried the following-
FIXMBR C: FIXBOOT C: COPY CDDrive:I386NTLDR C: COPY CDDrive:I386|NTDETECT.COM C: BOOTCFG /rebuild
The two copy commands didnt work for me- they gave me “access denied” and I rebooted and it still failed.
After trying about a dozen other things I returned and somehow discovered that my CD drive was mounted
as H: . So modifying the above to-
FIXMBR C: FIXBOOT C: COPY H:I386NTLDR C: COPY H:I386|NTDETECT.COM C: BOOTCFG /rebuild
And it worked! Im checking out the new setup now and so far so good. Google Desktop is reporting that
something is wrong and its time to sign into email for the first time in 20 hours.
A few glitches- my old 2nd drive moved from “F” to “E” and so a bunch of stuff is failing. Switching it
back seems to have fixed it and almost everything looks good. Microsoft Office was still busted but
luckily it has a good repair program and once I ran that everything was actually right.
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