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copying IDE hd to SATA hd

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msantosh18 Original post #1
Mar 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM
can anyone help me for the following problem

i got a new SATA hd and i have copied my old IDE hd to my new sata hd

and the os in IDE hd is windows 2000. the copying was sucessful but i cant boot into the system
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ramsubraj #2
Mar 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM
some details on the above issue.....

source : samsung 80GB ide hard disk

target : seagate 80gb sata hard disk


copied using : Norton Ghost


problem 1:

had blue screen error related to acpi.....

solution :

=copied acpi.sys from an windows xp system to windows 2000
=acpi error was solved.

problem 2:

now blue screen error shows INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE


SOLUTION NEEDED.............

PLEASE HELP......
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chiru #3
Mar 6, 2008 at 9:00 PM
may be ur motherboard doesn't support sata drives
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ramsubraj #4
Mar 7, 2008 at 1:33 AM
the old motherboard did not support sata..........

but now it is connected to the latest Intel 945GCNL Board......

so its not a problem with the motherboard
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passion_unlimitedd #5
Apr 1, 2008 at 5:48 PM
msantosh18 said:
can anyone help me for the following problem

i got a new SATA hd and i have copied my old IDE hd to my new sata hd

and the os in IDE hd is windows 2000. the copying was sucessful but i cant boot into the system
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how u copied the HDD ? did u simply performed copy/paste the whole HDD ? if so it will not boot from u r sata hdd. make an image of u r old IDE hdd and then restore the image in the new sata hdd. it will do the job. for making image u can use norton ghost, acronis true image etc .