On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:00:29 -0400, Mike Walsh <spamscks@netrox.net>
wrote:

>I get a prompt asking if I want to write a signature to the disk when running disk administrator,

What exactly do you mean by "disk administrator"? Is it the same as
"Disk Management" in "Computer Management" located either in Control
Panel or My Computer ("Manage").

I get a prompt sometimes but not necessarily in Disk Management and it
says nothing about any "signature". It says that Windows has installed
a new device and you have to reboot.

>since that is the first thing that I do after installing a new drive.

How do you make this "disk administrator" force a new signature?

>It happens when installing a drive to be partitioned or formatted, or when I install a drive from another system e.g. Win98 that does not have a signature and I run disk administrator to assign drive letters.

If you mean "Disk Management" in "Computer Management" then when I try
to assign a drive letter to a clone drive I get an error message
telling me that the volume/partition is not enabled and to reboot to
enable it. When I reboot I get the same thing over again.


>I have never run two disks with the same signature,

OK, then what do I do to change the signature on the clone before I
run Windows. Is there a CD utility available that allows me to change
the signature outside Windows proper. That's really what I need.

> but I assume it would cause some strange and inconsistent results, including blue screen of death.

I am here to tell you that it most definitely causes strange and
inconsistent results, including BSOD.

The only way I have found to get around this is to clone the second
drive from a source drive that is a different model. What I have to do
is first clone an intermediate 30 GB drive from my original 80 GB
drive and then clone my second 80 GB drive from the 30 GB
intermediate.