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Thanks for a HUGE response.................. For the record, I have tried Drive Image and it appears to have been sucessful.. No drive letter issue, I haven't tried the drive by itself yet. So much for Norton Ghost!

I think we are getting off the topic.............but since it was brought up, I have read many places that you can't mix hard drive types on the same bus (33 with a 100 as example). I have just used Drive Image and the drive letter issue seems to be resolved on the cloned drive! The drive that is booting is 'C' (as it should be). I will see if it will boot by itself and let you know. Regarding Drive Image rewriting the MBR, is this a one time deal when it goes into its DOS mode and then returns it to the previous state after the next reboot?? You are starting to get me nervious.

I have read Drive Image faq's on the drive letter and page file issues with 2k. I admit Drive Image is far better than Ghost especially the ability to boot back into DOS without the floppy! Will let you know how I make out.

Update......... I tried the above and the same thing. The screen that hangs is the user settings and save user settings. This is when only the cloned drive is hooked up. I imaged the first drive without the 2nd drive connected. Then copied the image file to the 2nd drive. But it gets hung up in a endless loop between loading user settings and saving user settings.. It just cycles 'round and 'round. I'll try Drive Image.

I used only one cable because I didn't feel one drive per cable was necessary. I have always put both hard drives on the same bus. This is my first M/B with a There is enough clutter inside with the other 3 drives (2 CD'd and a Zip). Bothe drives are (or were ) the same except for size, so the speed issue wasn't a factor. The jumper settings are set for cable select since the controllers' bios does the switching. That way has worked without a separate controller and has worked here running ME before I switched to 2k. I know 2k has issues with drive letters and a whole bunch more. What I am going to do is re-image the drive without the other drive connected, as I believe I did befoire on my other system, then transfer that saved image over to the 2nd drive and reboot and see what happens. If that doesn't work, I will try Drive Image which I haven't since I'm comfortable with Ghost and have been able to get it to work in the past. I don't mind trying new programs, but not at this level of importance without really being sure I need to. I might of mispoke on what Maxtor said. I meant on the same controller not bus. But it was some ID that was sent to the hard drive itself that is the issue, not the firmware that was loaded. I will change the timeout to see the paths, but that was the default. I beleive less is better except in having backups!

What do you mean the drives must be on different cables? Since when?I have them on the same cable the way I always had them when I had ME loaded. I've tried them on different cables but that didn't matter. Yes they are on the HPT controiller and I am changing the boot order there. I have no boot menu. Only 1 O/S per active partition/per drive. I just talked to Maxtor (the manufacture of the drives) on another issue and he told me regarding moving them to IDE channels, they have to stay on the same bus the O/S was loaded on because of a ID that was sent to the controller on the drive to ID the drive to the system. (or something like that). Drive 1: 2 partitions, first active. This was the one the O/S was loaded to. Drive 2: 2 partitions, first active. This was where the image went to. Both on a Highpoint controller (366). When '1' is set for the boot drive all is ok. It is 'C & E' and drive 2 is 'D & F'. When '2' is set to boot from, it is 'D & F' and drive 1 is still 'C & E'. BUT, before I created a page file there was no page file here. It was only in 'C' (drive 1). I am booting to 'D'. In other words the letters follow the partitions! ( I have seen this before). That same drive by itself won't boot. It gets caught in a looping pattern (for lack of a better term) at the 'preparing network connections' dialog box durning the msgina stage (again, for lack of a better term). Safe mode doesn't work either. These ARC paths I am not familar with. They look ok in the boot.ini file. Here is the text off the file: [boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Indian Head" /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn3.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="AMD vs Wintell" /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn1.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Dr Stranglove" /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn2.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Space Invaders" /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn4.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="NYCS" /fastdetect /kernel=ntoskrn5.exe As you can see I have been to 'Little White Dog' forums................Changing the boot image in ntoskrnl works fine. I look at the boot.ini file in my OTHER computer and that looks just about the same. The file is identical in the other drive.

The cloned drive becomes 'D'. The orginal drive is always 'C', no matter which drive is booting from.. I have run into this before without a controller involved, but it was a corrupted install from the start. I had to start all over again. This WAS good install from the start since it was the 4th time I loaded 2k. (learned by my other mistakes) The only thing, this was the first time with a controller involved. Now, I hooked the drives up to the IDE 1 bus where a CD-Rom was, but now neither drive boots! Even with the other one disconnected, and in safe mode. They hang halfway through the ntoskrnl splash screen! I checked the order in the bios (Award 4.51 w/ a Wintell 440BX chipset) which is a,c,scsi. I also checked the scsi order (separate menu) and it is ata,scsi. I was never really crazy about those controllers before, something more to go wrong!

With a single drive the drive letter is C. I'm running FAT32 since I'm leary of the access problems of NTFS. The Highpoint bios doesn't let you disable the drive, as far as changing the mode, I believe it does. I assume that won't damage the drive, forceing it to be read different than it was intended? Someone mentioned ARC paths and the M$ article releted to it. I really don't fully understand all of that. (M$ article #102873)

Running 2k, is there a limit to the number of cameras that can be accessed with video software like Videowave and Media Studio? I have 2 USB cameras and a AGP card with a video input but the software only sees 2 out of the 3 cameras. If I uninstall and reinstall one of them, something else gets bumped out. Anyone else have this problem?

Web cams can be had for as little as $20........... I have a PC Cam 600 from Crteative and a DVC 325 from Kodak. The other are 2 CCTV cameras for about $250 w/lens each. Considering that people pay $400 for AGP video cards that's not much!

I imaged a drive from one computer, ran sysprep, shut down, moved the drive to another computer and tried to boot. It didn't, I got the stop message per the M$ article 216915 (I didn't think it would work). I want to delete the 'enum' entry in the registry but can't use RegEdit since that drive isn't bootable BUT I can access it from the other bootable (I believe in backups) drive in the new computer. Unless someone knows how to point RedEdit to another drive other than 'C' what file is that key in in the 'WinNT\System32\Config' folder?

Two computers through a router running 2k and all I can see is the other computer, no drives! I have the drives set up through my computer as shared but under computers near me only the computer name shows and printers and scheduled tasks in that! What am I missing? No passwords are used, same workgroup. The computer is there but the drives aren't.

I assumed that selecting share as was enough. I didn't create a new share. But now I did and everything is 'A OK'! Sorry 'bout that..........

I want to move a drive with all my programs to another computer with a different chipset (VIA KT-133E to a Wintell BX40). I have read M$ articles on sysprep and HAL's and all of that BUT I am looking for someone that has done this before that has a better way without copying all that stuff to a file and doing a merge into the registry etc. I did this once before just by deeleting the enum key in the registry and letting 98SE detect everything all over agian. Yes, there were problems, but they were dealt with one at a time. Yes I also know 2k is different. I do have sp2 installed if that matters. The destination system has a Highpoint controller where the orginating system does not. I tried it already, but I get the 'stop error, inaccessable boot device' screen. The Highpoint controller does reconize the drive ok by the way.

I e-mailed Highpoint about the file not found issue. Well............Highpoint has had a 'beta' driver out (1/01) that said it fixed a IBM drive issue. I didn't bother with that since it was beta and I have Maxtor HD. BUT, I downloaded it just to see........AND the missing file WAS there AND it dealt with a Maxtor ATA100 issue!!!!!!!! Slight difference from what it said on the site!! Wonders never seese.

I did try safe mode and no dice. I did think about moving off the controller bus, but wanted to see if I could resolve it without doing that first. (One nevers learns how to change a tire if someone else does it for you) I pretty wrote off tring to rescue the imaged drive, and I agree from my past experiance that a fresh install is best, BUT, setup doesn't even see the drive! The drive shows up in the controller (by the way it is the only drive), AND it shows in fdisk! Both partitions and the first is still active! I tried to load the Highpoint controler driver durning F6 in setup but I get a error that a oem txt file wasn't found (which isn't on the floppy)! So I assume this is why I'm getting the no drive error? I love 2k for its stablility BUT these quirks are really tough to deal with. Nothing seems to make sense why it's not working. I installed 2k on the other computer over ME with no error messages (but no controller). What I don't understand is on a fresh install, there isn't any drivers on the drive, is the driver on those 4 floppies that it loads just to see the drive in the early stages???

I never believe in fortune cookies............ The Highpoint controller is recognized on boot, I can switch between drives (I have 2, both bootable, well, at least one is now) but I get to the 'stop message invalid boot device message'.

If it includes IE 6 I won't install it after reading about what IE 6 is suppose to be doing regarding spyware (at least M$'s version of it) If I can find the link on this I will post it here.

I can't find the 'minidump' file! 2k shows a 'minidump' file listed as the palce where the entry goes but I can't find it doing a search.

The of the 4 choices in the F5 option durning setup what are the I486 and SMP (or something like that) choices? I tried to search M$ site but couldn't find anything. Is the first choice 'standard PC' the same as not choosing F5 in the first place?

Another try............ Anyone know what c-step I486 is?

As I said these are not in Event Viewer. There are more than one program that I have gotten errors from. All they say is that the program has generated errors and will be shut down and a error log was created.

I tried twice to make a Emergency Repair Disk using 2k w/sp2 installed and keep getting missing files in the boot disk when I try to boot from it. IFSHLP.sys System\VMM32.vxd and something about a name of a windows loader. Any ideas?

Since it isn't a bootable disk the error messages really are meaningless I would guess!

I was told in another forum that this is a backup disk of files NOT a boot disk. As far as Win98 files, this is in a 2k system, clean install. NO 98 at all!