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Migrating Boot Device fom SCSI to SATA
I am trying to transfer the boot partition from a Windows XP SCSI drive to a
RAID 5 SATA volume on an Addonics Compact RAID enclosure. I created a large RAID 5 on the Addonics Compact RAID, and then I used a disk partition management utility to make an image copy from the boot partition on C: to the Addonics Compact RAID partition. I made the copy before Windows boots, so there is no issue here about files on the source partition being locked or used. The image made was a perfect copy of the original. After creating the new boot partition, I disconnected the SCSI drives and attempted to boot from the new partition. Even when I specify the new partition explicitly as the boot device in the system bios, all attempts to boot from it give back the error that it is not a system disk, and the boot process for Windows never starts. Is there a trick to making Compact RAID the boot device on a Windows system? Perhaps some adjustment needs to be made into boot.ini? Perhaps I need to explicitly disble BIOS in the Adaptec host adapter? There is no BIOS boot environment for the eSATA card I am using, which appears to be based on the Silicon Image 3124 chipset. -- W |
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