Okay, so I have two WDC 640GB HDs, each with a Primary partition of 150GB and I Ghost some OS Images to them, but when I try to boot from these partitions, all I see is blinking cursor top left. It doesn't matter what OS (XP or Vista), they just can't boot. The same image boot fine on my two 500GBs with 100GB partitions. Is there something wrong with partitions bigger than 100GB? They are both Active as well, so I'm really puzzling now. Any assistance will greatly be appreciated. TIA...
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WD 640GB Not Bootable?
- Thread starter JCNiest5
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could be a couple things..
bad image copied over.. I've never been a fan of Norton Ghost.
Could be a system setting, box maybe trying to look for some raid array or something..
When you mean the box just goes to a cursor, do you mean no BIOS screen or anything..
bad image copied over.. I've never been a fan of Norton Ghost.
Could be a system setting, box maybe trying to look for some raid array or something..
When you mean the box just goes to a cursor, do you mean no BIOS screen or anything..
could be a couple things..
bad image copied over.. I've never been a fan of Norton Ghost.
Could be a system setting, box maybe trying to look for some raid array or something..
When you mean the box just goes to a cursor, do you mean no BIOS screen or anything..
Can't be bad image on two HDs (four, actually counting the two HDs that can boot fine). These two HDs used to a RAID 0 configuration, yes. But they were converted back to normal single HD operation.
When it tries to boot after the BIOS/POST screen, there is nothing on the screen but the blinking cursor top left. Doesn't look like it even tries to boot.
You should check your bios to make sure that the right drive is selected for first boot. You should also double confirm that you did break the raid 0 array, because if you didn't or something went wrong in that process this could explain your issue.
You also need to checked your ghosted image, it may also be bad, perhaps test run the image on another drive if you have one?
You also need to checked your ghosted image, it may also be bad, perhaps test run the image on another drive if you have one?