installed a seagate sata drive>>hangs

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by norm, May 21, 2006.

  1. norm

    norm Private E-2

    i have partitioned and tranfered all the files.setup to boot from my new drive primary partition.took out my old drive.installed the new drive in my sata 1 port.
    boots to the windows screen where you have the choice of users then hangs there.
    winxp sp2
    sata is enabled in bios
    hard drive boot order is set to the new drive.
    nf7-s2 board
    thanks all i have been tearing my hair out
     
    norm, May 21, 2006
    #1
  2. InYearsToCome

    InYearsToCome MajorGeek

    did you install windows on the new drive or simply move the old drive's contents t the SATA drive?

    If you did the latter, there is your problem.
     
    InYearsToCome, May 21, 2006
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  3. norm

    norm Private E-2

    i copied the contents and partitioned using seagates software.i did a repair \of winxp and now it will boot to windows.but my drive is drive j instead of c.i tried to change the drive to c but windows wouldn't let me
    anyideas?
     
    norm, May 21, 2006
    #3

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