Need help with copying harddrive

Stevetama

New Member
I am trying to copy a hard drive with Windows NT.

I am using Paragon's "Drive Copy" software.

The original hard drive boots no problem, there are 2 partitions.

I have copied all of the original files onto a new hard drive, the data information is the same size on the copy and the original. The partition names are the same, the boot.ini has it booting off of the correct partition, etc.

But.... When I try to boot off of the new hard drive, it gives an error "NTdetect error" in a "dos" type screen.

As far as I can tell, the drive copy software worked properly, I don't know why the copied hard drive will not work.

Anyone have some insight?
 

concorde

New Member
Well, you need to destroy the original copy of Windows to be legal. You can't run more than one copy of Windows. I can tell you that copying an operating system is difficult at best AND it will not run on a different PC. I can't help you here unless you promise to destroy the original. S:(rry.
 

Stevetama

New Member
I wouldn't be running more than one copy of windows. Anyone that can actually help instead of fill my thread with unnecessary rhetoric?
 

sg1

New Member
Is the copied drives jumper setting correct? and set to first boot device or at least first over the old drive? ;)
 

patrickv

Active Member
I have copied all of the original files onto a new hard drive, the data information is the same size on the copy and the original. The partition names are the same, the boot.ini has it booting off of the correct partition, etc.
you do realize you said "I", which i pressume that was manual copy ? is it ?

But.... When I try to boot off of the new hard drive, it gives an error "NTdetect error" in a "dos" type screen.
the hard drive is not bootable or not cloned or in your case, "copied" properly.
If you can get the system file "ntdetect.xxx" from the windows cd or in the 386 folder just copy it to the root of the second hard drive
 

Stevetama

New Member
you do realize you said "I", which i pressume that was manual copy ? is it ?


the hard drive is not bootable or not cloned or in your case, "copied" properly.
If you can get the system file "ntdetect.xxx" from the windows cd or in the 386 folder just copy it to the root of the second hard drive

I pulled the hard drive I need copied out of it's machine and came to my desktop computer.

I left my HD as the C: drive, and set the one I needed to copy to D: and the new blank to E:

I then ran the Paragon Drive Copy software to copy D: to E:

The NTdetect file is on the hard drive, So I don't think I need to copy it from a win CD, but I can try and see if it fixes the error.
 
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