I am not sure where i've went wrong... I've bought a lovely new 300gb hard drive, and went to install it into my system, replacing my older 80 gb hard drive. On opening the system, however, I discovered that the hard drive already in the pc was connected with a narrow flat cable, unlike the normal wide flat ones i've seen.... (I didnt install this, a local pc shop did) Is this IDE? Anyway... I have used Norton Ghost to clone my old smaller hard drive to my new larger hard drive, and all seemed well until i removed the older hard drive, set the new one to "master" (by moving the jumper, is this correct and complete?) and tried to boot up... it wouldnt boot and wanted a cd to boot from....
This is my second attempt at this, the first time worked fine on my friends pc, but this one is not playing ball at all... Is it because of the IDE? How can I rectify this, please?
Many thanks in advance, I know many of you are far more intelligent than me...lol xxx
2006-12-10 22:03:14 · 3 answers · asked by iamqueentracy 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
your old one was SATA,, ( narrow socket) this was more recent and faster than the IDE one you buy,,, however,,, cloning with norton,, not alawys a successful process,,, then you must be sure that your motherboard recognized your new HD during booting,, by seeing its brand name during booting as a primary master,,then if all is ok,,, then you have to reinstall your system again on it,, and do not depend on cloning,, this may be ok for files only,, and may be for other programs,,, but not for an operating system,, the one unit of your computer which was recognized by your cloned operating system is the motherboard and the hard disk,, which is now changed,, so your system may not recognize it,,so,, install your windows again
2006-12-10 22:20:43 · answer #1 · answered by hard_cane0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the cable..lots of times they wont but without an ultra and some arent...also check with the board manufacturer...some types of computers arent compatibile with high gig drives...many times as well windows xp isnt rebootable on another comptuer and you may have to slave out the files one by one.
2006-12-11 06:07:21 · answer #2 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.
Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
2006-12-11 10:56:28 · answer #3 · answered by BU1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋