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Pat O'Connell
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:23 am Post subject: Chaintech 6BMJ mobo & Maxtor 6Y0L080 HD - help! |
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Hello all,
This is being posted to several groups simultaneously, so first off, apologies
if it's an off-topic post for any of them.
Old hardware: PII/350 (Compaq Deskpro EN 6350), 80-gig Maxtor HD (model
6Y0L080), various cards
New hardware: PIII/700, Chaintech 6BMJ mobo, same hard drive, same various
cards
80-gigger is partitioned: 7 Gb + 35 Gb + 35 Gb. Boot partition is the
7-gigger, C:
OS: Win Me in both cases (see below)
Problem: Basically I just want to throw the existing drive in the new machine
and have it work - I'll let it detect, remove hardware that isn't there any
more, add what's new or what it thinks is new, yadda yadda yadda.
WILL NOT BOOT FROM C:! This drive will boot just fine in the old machine, but
when I ask the "new" system to boot from it, "Missing operating system."
Moreover, booting from a Me floppy, can see the D: and E: 35-gig partitions
just fine, but "dir C:" gives "Invalid media type reading drive C:."
Yes, have tried updating the BIOS. Original BIOS date was 05/05/2000 and I
have since applied a flash with the same date (probably to no effect) and then
one that brought it to July something of the same year. It now at least
recognizes the full capacity of the drive, but still having exactly same
problem with not booting from C:.
Still booted from the Me floppy on the new machine, format C:. Finds "bad"
sectors on C: in the exact same amount that are USED when same partition is
booted on the old machine. Very suspicious!
Primary partition has been GHOST'd to another single-partition drive as a
backup. Next step will be to get the 80-gigger as a slave to another bootable
drive, format it under Windows, then do file-by-file copy of everything from
backup single-partition to C: partition. Then retry booting from C: on new
machine. This still may not work, as MBR won't be updated.
All ideas & suggestions welcome. Particularly interested in hearing from
anyone who's gotten the exact same combination of mobo and HD working.
There is one last BIOS flash file I have not been able to find. Filename is
6BJM0912.EXE, so if anyone has that, that would be lovely.
Thanks,
Cool Wahad
vindicata@hotmail.com |
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Rod Speed
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:24 am Post subject: Re: Chaintech 6BMJ mobo & Maxtor 6Y0L080 HD - help! |
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Pat O'Connell <REMOVEvindicataCAPITALS@hotmail.com> wrote
in message news:L0x3b.13010$Cg2.1114938@news20.bellglobal.com...
| Quote: | Old hardware: PII/350 (Compaq Deskpro EN 6350),
80-gig Maxtor HD (model 6Y0L080), various cards
New hardware: PIII/700, Chaintech 6BMJ mobo,
same hard drive, same various cards
80-gigger is partitioned: 7 Gb + 35 Gb + 35 Gb.
Boot partition is the 7-gigger, C:
OS: Win Me in both cases (see below)
Problem: Basically I just want to throw the existing drive in the new machine
and have it work - I'll let it detect, remove hardware that isn't there any
more, add what's new or what it thinks is new, yadda yadda yadda.
WILL NOT BOOT FROM C:! This drive will boot just fine in the old machine,
but when I ask the "new" system to boot from it, "Missing operating system."
Moreover, booting from a Me floppy, can see the D: and E: 35-gig partitions
just fine, but "dir C:" gives "Invalid media type reading drive C:."
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Did you have any initial glitches when you first put the drive in the new machine ?
It you had say put the ribbon cable on backwards initially, or
had not initially had the drive type set to AUTO in the new machine,
or had not had it set to AUTO in the old machine, that could have
scrambled the MBR and that could produce that result now.
The quick check for that possibilility is to see
if it still boots back in the original machine, and
check that drive type question in both machines.
| Quote: | Yes, have tried updating the BIOS. Original BIOS date was 05/05/2000
and I have since applied a flash with the same date (probably to no effect)
and then one that brought it to July something of the same year. It now
at least recognizes the full capacity of the drive, but still having exactly
same problem with not booting from C:.
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Presumaby it isnt able to read that partition properly for some reason.
| Quote: | Still booted from the Me floppy on the new machine, format C:.
Finds "bad" sectors on C: in the exact same amount that are USED
when same partition is booted on the old machine. Very suspicious!
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Yeah, thats rather odd. Did you delete and
recreate that first partition before formatting it ?
| Quote: | Primary partition has been GHOST'd to another single-partition drive
as a backup. Next step will be to get the 80-gigger as a slave to
another bootable drive, format it under Windows, then do file-by-file
copy of everything from backup single-partition to C: partition.
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Why not just use ghost to restore it from the safety copy ?
| Quote: | Then retry booting from C: on new machine.
This still may not work, as MBR won't be updated.
All ideas & suggestions welcome.
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I'd go back to basics first, see if the drive will
still boot in the original machine. Likely it wont.
| Quote: | Particularly interested in hearing from anyone who's gotten
the exact same combination of mobo and HD working.
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Thats rather unlikely to be the problem, particular that odd result
of being able to see the D and E partitions fine but not the C partition.
| Quote: | There is one last BIOS flash file I have not been able to find. Filename
is 6BJM0912.EXE, so if anyone has that, that would be lovely. |
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