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This problem is half software, half hardware, here it goes:
I have norton ghost, and wanted to use it to clone my primary partition and place it on a new hard drive. So I dont have to go through all the hassless of installing the os and programs on my new h ard drive. So I ran ghost, it took two hours to copy the partition on the new drive.
The problems begin with the fact that I cant boot off the new drive with other hard drives attached. The new drive is a sata drive. I can boot into windows perfectly when its the only drive attached. But when I attach the other drives, both ide and sata, it wont boot from the sata drive.
(I have four drives, two sata, two ide. The former primary drive was ide with one sata and one ide as storage.)
I hook up three drives, two sata, and the storage ide, disconnecting the primary ide, so it doesnt boot off of that. I cant boot into windows with that configuration. I cant boot into windows with any ide drive connected, except the old primary hard drive.
When I have all four drive attached, the pc boots off of the primary ide drive, not the sata.
I dont know what to do to fix this situation. I would like to have the computer boot always from the new sata hard drive, and then be able to sipe the old ide boot drive and use it for storage. I cant seem to do it though.
Thanks for any help.
I have norton ghost, and wanted to use it to clone my primary partition and place it on a new hard drive. So I dont have to go through all the hassless of installing the os and programs on my new h ard drive. So I ran ghost, it took two hours to copy the partition on the new drive.
The problems begin with the fact that I cant boot off the new drive with other hard drives attached. The new drive is a sata drive. I can boot into windows perfectly when its the only drive attached. But when I attach the other drives, both ide and sata, it wont boot from the sata drive.
(I have four drives, two sata, two ide. The former primary drive was ide with one sata and one ide as storage.)
I hook up three drives, two sata, and the storage ide, disconnecting the primary ide, so it doesnt boot off of that. I cant boot into windows with that configuration. I cant boot into windows with any ide drive connected, except the old primary hard drive.
When I have all four drive attached, the pc boots off of the primary ide drive, not the sata.
I dont know what to do to fix this situation. I would like to have the computer boot always from the new sata hard drive, and then be able to sipe the old ide boot drive and use it for storage. I cant seem to do it though.
Thanks for any help.