[macer]

Hi Guys need some help on this if possible.

My System at the moment currently holds two sata drives made by Maxtor, one is a 80gb which windows boots off (C:) Drive. The other one is (D) Drive 160gb which I use to back up alot of files etc. Due to me needing more space a good friend gave me a new, still sealed 160gb sata WD, which I palned to replace (C:) drive with.

I though It would be a case of opening up the case un pluging the 80gb and putting in the new 160gb WD and reinstaling windows to that drive. But I cant get as far as instaling windows, I have the third party driver etc on flopy and do everything the same as i would normaly do if i was to reinstall windows.


I get the following message

HardWare Initiate failed, Please Check Device!!! The Bios does not be installed. Press <g> to continue!
It does not see the drive or infact both of them? and I have tried what I know to the best of my knowlege and now running out of options?

I Run a
Asus A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+
1.25 GB RAM

Any help and sugestions are most welcome.

[hassan97]

INstead of re-installing Windows on the new harddrive, why dont u instead clone the 80gb harddrive onto the 160gb, using Norton Ghost or something else

[macer]

Hi Hassan

Thanks for replying to my post. I did consider that. But then decided against it.

[DreamHazard]

What were your reasons for deciding against using Ghost? This is by far the most effective and efficient method available for what you want to do.

[macer]

Reason for not cloning the drive, I want to give the new drive a fresh start. Install windows onto it rather than clone.

[macer]

Hi guys to put a close on this, I have now got it to work. It needed jumpering from a 300 to a 150.

Thanks once again for the help.