Help? Plz?

[SerialThriller]

I seem to be having a problem with a drive of mine...

The drive works fine on the desktop computer i have (currently using the HDD now) but when i put the HDD in my Shuttle Windows fails to boot.

Any ideas on what might be wrong? btw, Windows says the disk is healthy and it runs fine on my desktop comp.

Replies are appreciated

 

[arkamw]

More details?

When you put the drive in the shuttle is it the only drive in the system? For example, are you loading windows on your desktop and then putting it in the shuttle expecting windows to load? It won't (without a few extra steps).

If it isn't the only drive, have you VERIFIED ALL the jumper settings? Make sure to get those right. Also, don't those machine run at the very limit of their power capabilities? If you are adding another drive to the system and you already have a lot of hardware in there, you might run into problems.

In short, more info is needed.

Cheers.

 

[SerialThriller]

ah, my bad.

yes, it is the only drive in the system for both the shuttle and midtower comps.

any ideas?

 

[Ice Czar]

your trying to use the same HDD and OS install on two different mobos?

incompatible drivers

 

[arkamw]

^^^

So the man speaketh.

You might want to check here for more info on how to do what you want.

Or, you might consider just installing XP with the HDD in the shuttle case. Might save some time.

Cheers.

 

[SerialThriller]

Tks guys, so i should just use the sysprep method?

or can i use the cd that came with the shuttle and download the drivers onto the HDD i want to use and it will work fine when i start the HDD with the new mobo?

also, the comp would need the hardware installed to install the drivers i am guessing?

 

[Ice Czar]

How to Prepare Images for Disk Duplication with Sysprep

you wont be duplicating but the prep is what counts

Sysprep is a tool designed for corporate system administrators, OEMs, and others who need to deploy the Windows XP operating system on multiple computers. After performing the initial setup steps on a single system, you can run Sysprep to prepare the sample computer for cloning.

To use Sysprep as part of the disk duplication process, the following requirements must be met:

The master installation and the destination computers must have compatible hardware abstraction layers (HALs). For example, HAL APIC and HAL MPs (multiprocessor systems) are compatible, whereas HAL PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller) is not compatible with either HAL APIC or HAL MPs.

The mass storage controllers (IDE or SCSI) must be identical between the reference and destination computers.

Plug and Play devices such as modems, sound cards, network cards, video cards, and so on, do not have to be the same.

However, any device drivers not included in Drivers.cab should be included in the master installation before you run Sysprep.

Alternatively, make sure the uninstalled drivers are available on the destination computer at first run, so Plug and Play can detect and install the drivers.

Third party software or disk duplicating hardware devices are required. These products create binary images of a computers hard disk, and they either duplicate the image to another hard disk or store the image in a file on a separate disk.

The size of the destination computers hard disk must be at least the same size as the hard disk of the master installation. If the destination computer has a larger hard disk, the difference is not included in the primary partition. However, you can use the ExtendOemPartition entry in the Sysprep.inf file to extend the primary partition if it was formatted to use the NTFS file system.

Note If the reference and destination computers have different BIOS versions, you should test the process first to ensure success. When using Sysprep for Disk Duplication, Sysprep modifies the local computer Security ID (SID) so that it is unique to each computer

How to prepare a master installation for cloning

1 Install Windows XP on a master computer. As a best practice, Microsoft recommends that Windows XP be installed from a distribution folder by using an answer file to help ensure consistency in configuring the master installation, so that iterative builds can be created and tested more readily. See Unattend.txt for information about automating Windows Setup using an answer file.

2 Log on to the computer as an administrator.

3 (Optional) Install and customize applications, such as Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer favorite items, and so on.

4 (Optional) Install any device drivers not included in Drivers.cab and not installed by the answer file.

5 (Optional) Run audit tests.

6 (Optional) If you want, create a Sysprep.inf file manually or with the aid of Setup Manager. This file is used to further customize each computer for the user and helps to set the amount of information for which the user will be prompted during Mini–Setup.

7 Run Sysprep.exe. Make sure that both the Sysprep.exe and Setupcl.exe files exist together in the %systemdrive%\Sysprep folder on the local hard disk. When used, the Sysprep.inf also needs to be in the same folder or on a floppy disk that is inserted when the Windows boot menu appears.
Important If Setupcl.exe is not in the same directory as Sysprep.exe, Sysprep will not work.

8 If the computer is ACPI compliant, the computer will shut down by itself. If not, a dialog box appears stating that it is safe to shut down the computer.

9 Take out the system drive and move it to the new computer