clone ide to sata help

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GlimmerMan

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I have windows 2003 x64 on an IDE drive. I cloned it to a sata2 SSD using Acronis 11. The clone completed with no errors. I can even see the file system if I hooked up the SSD to another computer.
But the SSD will not boot. It starts booting, then it hangs. No windows splash screen.
Any ideas?
Thanks
 
You may be trying to run in AHCI without the AHCI drivers installed.

Go into the bios and see if you can put your sata ports in IDE or compatible mode.

Don
 
I went into bios and see no options to put sata in ide/compatibility mode.
If I boot up the ide drive, i can see the ssd ok.
Thanks
 
I looked all over the bios menus. There is no sata ide/compatibility mode option.

There seems to be some conflict with the DVD-drive (also sata). When the DVD-drive is listed before the SSD in the boot order, the SSD does not boot. But when the DVD-drive is listed after the SSD, the SSD boots up fine. Strange, but at least its working now.

Thanks Don
 
That's weird, was the DVD drive empty?

There may be a firmware update available for the drive. I know the last couple of Samsung drives I have bought had newer firmware available.

Are you on the Motherboard in your sig?

Don
 
The drive is a Plextor. There is newer firmware. I downloaded it and flashed it. Still same problem.

I discovered the problem when I was about to do a fresh OS install. I had the Win2K3 CD in the drive, but I missed hitting a key at the, "Hit a key to boot from CD" prompt. Then to my surprise, it booted the SSD OK. I took out the CD, the SSD would not boot. Put the CD back in, and it booted the SSD OK.

I'm using a Tyan Thunder K8SE (S2892). It uses nforce pro2200
 
Hmm, Plextors are usually rock solid.

Good catch on finding that problem. That could have annoyed you for quite a while.

Don
 
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