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by **Darkraider33** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:24 pm

Guys, I need your help on this one. I used Norton Ghost to clone my old hdd. Restarted with both drives still in compute :embarrassed:

r. I get this message "Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device or boot from media disk floppy" Not sure if the wordings are correct but this is what I get.
I switch hdd and it states the same thing. Please help me or my wife will kill me.
:-x

Thanks,

by **tWeaKmoD** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:33 pm

Is it possible that you copied the blank hdd over your original. (opposite of what you wanted to do)

ADDED: It may sound stupid but I've done it before with Western Digital's formating disk.

by **SCgone** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:47 pm

Something you may want to do before packing your bags and slipping out the backdoor is get a boot disk and make sure you don't have 2 blank drives there. If it's formatted with FAT32, then any old Win98 or ME boot disk will do. If it's NTFS, then you'll need the NTFS boot disks.

If you don't have a boot disk, then http://www.bootdisk.com will have it.

by **tWeaKmoD** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:50 pm

Try this: Remove one drive and RESET the jumpers. If you installed two drives, I'm assuming that you put one drive as master and one as slave. If you take the slave out you have to remove the jumper from the master position. Give a look as to what your jumpers are set at. If you try that and the bootdisks, then maybe think about packing the bags (or just getting some ear plugs to quiet the nagging)

by **Darkraider33** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:30 am

musicfiend3 wrote:Is it possible that you copied the blank hdd over your original. (opposite of what you wanted to do)

ADDED: It may sound stupid but I've done it before with Western Digital's formating disk.

Ran Norton Ghost, it stated destination D:\ which was the new hdd. Don't know if I copied the blank drive to the old hdd. I will tell you this it was quick as s**t.

by **ZeroByte** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:33 am

Were you drives setup as master and slave or were they cable select?

I have done the copy a blank drive fubar as well and ghost can be confusing when your dealing with Cable Select drives because you may not really know which drive is which.

by **tWeaKmoD** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:36 am

I will tell you this it was quick as s**t.

Sounds like a format to me. I've used ghost before and it took 15-30 minutes over a network.

by **Darkraider33** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:38 am

Before I did the cloning, I check the setup.
OLD HDD - Master - Left the jumper settings as is (master)
New HDD - Slave - jump it to be slave.

By the way, I would like to thank everyone with the quick responses.

Thanks,

by **tWeaKmoD** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:41 am

Did you try taking out the slave hdd and taking the jumper out of the master and see if it will boot? Make sure to check your BIOS that it's recognizing the hdd.

by **Darkraider33** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:46 am

Tried that with both drives, but can you tell me what exactly I'm looking for in the Bios?

thanks

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