Keef
4th Nov 2009, 01:43
I think I'm having a series of senior moments.
Win 7 Released Version is all installed on the desktop, running fine. I chose the opportunity to retire the old Maxtor IDE hard drive that has been Drive C D and E for several years. I promoted the (newer) Western Digital IDE to "boot drive", left the second SATA drive in place (drives F to L), and installed a third (300GB SATA) drive as drive M, to be sure I wouldn't run out of space.
After all was done, I realised that the boot drive was making unhappy noises - it may be in need of my professional services soon. I ran EASEUS disk copier (booting from the CD) and cloned the IDE to the third (300GB) SATA.
What I can't do is get the machine to boot off that drive.
I've run EasyBCD and added an entry for it (although for some reason the option to call it Windows 7 wasn't there) and told it that one's primary.
I've told the BOOT config that the SATA is boot drive.
It won't boot. I get an error message that the drive is missing a BOOT file (I forget the detailed path and name, but BOOT is in it).
I put the Windows DVD back in, and it tells me there is indeed a problem, has a good go at fixing it, then reports that it can't fix it. It goes on line to MS and fails there, too.
What am I missing?
I've put the IDE back in, swapped the settings back, and the old IDE is still working and still groaning.
I suppose I could do a fresh install to the SATA drive, check that boots (take maybe half an hour) and then clone the stuff again (which will take about five hours, fortunately unattended). But that's a copout!
Win 7 Released Version is all installed on the desktop, running fine. I chose the opportunity to retire the old Maxtor IDE hard drive that has been Drive C D and E for several years. I promoted the (newer) Western Digital IDE to "boot drive", left the second SATA drive in place (drives F to L), and installed a third (300GB SATA) drive as drive M, to be sure I wouldn't run out of space.
After all was done, I realised that the boot drive was making unhappy noises - it may be in need of my professional services soon. I ran EASEUS disk copier (booting from the CD) and cloned the IDE to the third (300GB) SATA.
What I can't do is get the machine to boot off that drive.
I've run EasyBCD and added an entry for it (although for some reason the option to call it Windows 7 wasn't there) and told it that one's primary.
I've told the BOOT config that the SATA is boot drive.
It won't boot. I get an error message that the drive is missing a BOOT file (I forget the detailed path and name, but BOOT is in it).
I put the Windows DVD back in, and it tells me there is indeed a problem, has a good go at fixing it, then reports that it can't fix it. It goes on line to MS and fails there, too.
What am I missing?
I've put the IDE back in, swapped the settings back, and the old IDE is still working and still groaning.
I suppose I could do a fresh install to the SATA drive, check that boots (take maybe half an hour) and then clone the stuff again (which will take about five hours, fortunately unattended). But that's a copout!