I have a smaller IDE HDD and have run out of space. I purchased a 500GB SATA HDD and was using it as a data drive. The SATA HDD has two partitions – 1 50GB, the other has the full remaining space and has all the data. I formatted it this way so I could install the OS on the 50GB partition at a later date. Now is that later date. I created a ghost image of the IDE HDD (of the “partition”, not as a whole disk, even though it only has that one partition) and restored the partition to the 50GB partition on the SATA HDD.
My first problem was that I received the Boot Disk Failure error. Easy – I loaded the IDE HDD, went into computer management and set the SATA HDD 50GB partition as “Active”.
Voila! Now the SATA HDD 50GB’s partition loads the OS (Windows XP Professional)…somewhat. I get past the black background w/ the Windows XP Logo and the blue-blocked bar underneath…then I get to the blue background with the Windows XP Logo that usually has the user selection icons…but it never shows the icons. I’ve tried pressing ctrl+alt+del 3x’s and nothing happens. Pressing “Esc” or “Enter” causes an error-beep.
I also notice that when the IDE HDD loads windows, before it shows the user selection icons, it states “Windows is starting up”. When I try loading with the SATA HDD, it doesn’t get that far either.
Is there a config setting I need to adjust somewhere? I have access to the SATA HDD while the system is running from the IDE HDD.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks. ~Jasper
