Problems after upgrade

[3ee Dee]

I just upgraded from a WD 120gb to a Seagate 160gb and I used Ghost 9 to clone everything over. The first problem is it's telling me I need to reactivate windows...did something go wrong or should I go digging for my key and reactivate? Next problem is the drive's manufacturer is labeled as (Standered disk drives) is this correct? The final problem I've spotted is the drive's capacity is being read as only 149gb. Any help is appriciated, thanks.

[Ice Czar]

149GiB not GB

Binary vs Decimal (http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec-c.html)

you loose approx 10% in the conversion, + the small filesystem overhead
its more noticable the larger the drive.

Seems the OS is recognizing the new drive, yup just reactivate it

as far as recognition of the drive
as recognized in what?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886088 (W2003S)
Im assuming a data miss match of some sort, but without exactly what it is thats reporting its a "standard" disk its hard to say

how you might fix that in XP.....

[3ee Dee]

Ah thanks for the Binary vs Decimal info. So that answers that and I just reactivated the OS so that's out of the way. I'm still confused about the Standard disk drives thing. I never noticed it before, my cd burner even has Standard CD-ROM drives as the manufacturer. I guess it's not exactly a problem, I'm just curious why it doesn't recognize Seagate and Lite-On as the manufacturers.

[Ice Czar]

well it could be from the migration
Id ask if they where correctly identified before the clone

you could look in the BIOS typically under the PnP \ PCI Submenu for an option (which isnt universal to all BIOS) called Update ESCD or Forcxe Update ESCD or just ESCD

(Extended System Configuration Data)
its actually designed for PNP but can resolve a DMI hang from a HDD as well
so it must be looking at the IDE channels

or is this an SATA?
7200.7 Barracuda?

[3ee Dee]

Well the drive is correctly identified with the model number, I'm just wondering why it doesn't show the manufacturer. Do your drives actually label the manufacturers? I enabled ESCD and that didn't do anything. No SATA, just IDE.