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We have a DHD-04 which has a bad hard drive. All data was lost. I have a friend with the same system so I cloned his drive but the drive won't boot on the box. It boots on a regular PC without a problem. I tried creating a new 2GB FAT16 partition and copying the data over with the same results. I've tried a 40GB and 20GB hard drive and neither boots in the box. After reading others which cloned their drives and got the boxes working I thought it would straightforward. Clone the box and then run VMAdmin to reconfigure. By the way, I also tried renaming the dolkey.key file after reading some information here.

I have a 8GB CF drive coming today thinking that the system is so old (BIOS date of 2001) that it doesn't recognize larger drives.

Is there anything else that I'm missing?

Thanks very much,

Redman

I've seen where they don't like some bigger drives.

You also need to delete the dolkey file when putting a new drive in especially if your not loading the original image from the original drive

I renamed the dolkey.key file. I'll see if the 8GB CF drive works. The original drive was a 4GB Toshiba. The other system that I cloned from had a 40GB Toshiba but I think it was a bit newer DHD-04.

Thanks.

It was actually a 4GB CF. It causes the system to hang right after the RAM test. It boots fine with the 2GB FAT16 partition I created on a PC.

Any other thoughts?

Well I'm stumped. I tried LBA mode in the BIOS as well as Physical Disk with various drives and none will boot.