Ghost SCSI to IDE drive on Same PC

[jsohrt]

I have a Dell Poweredge 1300 server that came with a 9GB SCSI drive. The drive was formatted as FAT32 then XP PRO installed on it. I've used it for a long time and it's fine.

I am now out of disk space. SCSI drives are expensive. So I decided to install an IDE drive (60GB) which I now want as the main bootable drive.

Problem 1: I could not figure out how to build a bootable NTFS partition. I tried all kinds of things but resorted to using a Win98 disk, FDISK, then Format/S.

With this partition now bootable as Fat32, I used Norton Ghost to copy the partition from the SCSI drive to the IDE drive.

Problem 2: I disable the SCSI controller in the BIOS and attempt to boot from the IDE as C:, but it gets to the Windows XP Splash screen and hangs, though the mouse pointer still moves.

If I re-enable the SCSI controller, it will boot from the IDE device. It's as if it is still wanting something from the SCSI device.

I can tell when I've booted from the IDE because I modified the boot.ini file to have a separate entry for Safe Mode. Trying Safe Mode, it still gets to a Splash Screen and hangs.

Any suggestions?
Also, what is Sysprep?

Thanks,
jsohrt

 

[mmv]

Though I've never tried it myself, I reckon the first problem would be the boot.ini. IDE and SCSI disks are called differently.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;102873

Sysprep is a system preperation tool used to reset SIDs on a system before you copy it to multiple computers. Look for documentation on your XP/2000 CD in tools/deploy.cab

Martin

 

[wolluf]

suggestion. Keep the scsi as system drive, and reorganise your installation to use the IDE drive (partitioned if necessary) for most stuff except operating system (ie, move large software & data stores to it).