Re: FIXMBR renewed

From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:21:16 -0500

Harry and Michael:
I now have more progress to report, and then I'll need your
next advice. System has Master Drive, intact and operating
normally.....and it has Slave which is Drive-Image-created
copy of Master Drive. I can boot to Master by telling BIOS >>HDD0
and I can boot to Slave, by telling BIOS >>HDD1. Both systems
act fine, when I boot to either one. So far so good.

When I re-jumper the 'Slave' drive to be Master or Single and
run it, alone, in Master position, it starts to boot up, goes
past BIOS and past Windows XP black logo screen with the
progress bar....into the next XP logo screen (blue), and then
an error window appears, saying:
Windows Product Activation...
A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the
license for this computer. Error code 0X80090006.
End of bootup. Dead end. Remember, this is the same software,
identically, which booted up fine when it was the Slave Drive.
Have I described it clearly enough? This drive with its OS runs
in Slave position but boot halts when it is in Master position.
                Bill Lurie
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William B. Lurie wrote:
> Thank you, Harry. Basically, the problem is that my MBR needs
> fixing, I believe. I was afraid to go >>RC>>FIXMBR on the
> Master, so I used Drive Image 7.0 to make a full Disk->Disk
> copy, figuring that I could then keep the Master safe while I
> fixed the presumably exact copy. However, the 'exact copy'
> does not boot all the way; it hangs part way through. I wish
> I could get a proper clone to do as yours do. BTW, I know about
> RC and can get to it and execute FIXMBR, but I was hoping that
> somebody would lead me to what options exist there. Maybe it's
> fixable but I need the 'Help' instructions as to how. Now that we
> know that D-I 7 gets broken by running System Tools>>Disk Cleanup
> and enabling condensing the files, I plan on not doing that any
> more....after I get it fixed. Right now, if they've told me the
> truth, I have to uninstall and reinstall D-I 7.
> W B L
>
> Harry Ohrn wrote:
>
>> William the problem as I see it is with the way the image is being
>> created.
>> I've used several imaging programs to clone drives and once the cloned
>> drive
>> is connected as master it boots up just as the original. It might
>> serve you
>> better to see if you can get a proper clone happening rather than
>> spending
>> this much time trying to get one that isn't working to boot up.
>>
>> You are using Drive Image 7. Are there updates for it from Powerquest
>> that
>> you might need to apply? Are you doing a Disk->Disk copy rather than a
>> Partition->Partition copy. Disk->Disk would be the preferred route but
>> you
>> might find that a Partition->Partition copy is more effective.
>>
>
> 

-- 
                    William B. Lurie

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