Re: Boot problem, copied Master

From: Richard (hawkinsfamily3_at_DIGITbtinternet.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:12:29 +0000 (UTC)

"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
news:4059BC47.2010108@nospam.org...
> Richard wrote:
> > "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> > news:40592744.30206@nospam.org...
> >
> >>I'm starting a new thread because the earlier problem
> >>has changed. I have a newly formatted Slave drive, onto
> >>which I have *copied* my Master drive using Partition
> >>Magic 8 to copy it. This is not a Drive Image. I don't
> >>want an 'image' that I can use to recreate the original.
> >>I want an *exact copy* of the original, a clone which I can
> >>simply substitute for the original when the Master goes bad.
> >>(Please note that distinction, Michael).
> >>
> >>When I reboot, I am able to boot to either drive by changing
> >>target from HDD0 to HDD1 in the BIOS, and software on each
> >>drive is functioning when I boot to it. My next step will be
> >>to try to run the *exact copy* alone on the system, after
> >>I jumper it as the 'Master or single'. When I did all these
> >>steps before, it booted part way into XP, past the black
> >>logo screen, hanging on the first blue XP logo screen, and I
> >>could find no way to do a repair to make it boot further.
> >>That's why I reformatted and copied the drive again, and
> >>tomorrow I will try that next step.
> >>
> >>Perhaps somebody who has 'been there, done that' can tell
> >>me that it should work, or, if not, why not.
> >> William B. Lurie
> >
> >
> >
> > While the plot thickens! could you please keep the subject going on this
> > thread ? I am beginning to lose track when you start a new thread from
time
> > to time.
> >
> > ASFAIK XP insists on having the necessary boot files on the system drive
C.
> > So if you create another disk,by image and restore or direct copy this
drive
> > will be the boot drive but it will need the system drive C to be present
> > before it can be booted. You can however create a floppy containing the
> > NTLDR and boot INI files and you should be able to load this and then
the
> > new drive will boot having got the data from the floppy. Not very
elegant
> > but it works.
> >
> > A better solution is to create a clone of your master drive on a
separate
> > partition and then separately clone the system drive boot sector so the
> > replacement drive has--- Partition C system drive containing the boot
> > records and partition D the XP files.
> >
> > I am not explaining this very well so I will just describe what I use:-
> > Physical drive C has the system boot files. Physical drive D contains
XP.
> > The system boots and runs normally.
> > It is also possible when using the floppy,mentioned above, to boot to D
> > drive bypassing C drive.
> >
> > Back up is of C and D using Drive image 7 to another partition on a
daily
> > basis and to an external drive weekly.
> >
> > Yes I have tested it by restoring C and D to two new drives from the
> > external drive. I did find it necessary to restore D first and then C. I
> > assume that the D restore wrote something to C which was corrected when
C
> > was restored.
> >
> > I hope this is of some help .
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> >
> Richard, I started a new thred because I felt the old one
> was getting too long to follow. Also, I picked up and
> summarized so that the old thread didn't have to be present.
>
> I'll save and print out what you wrote, but I'd appreciate
> your being a little more explicit. When you use Drive Image 7,
> to make the 'copy' ... are you using its DISK COPY mode,
> and not Drive Image mode? Gosh, it's nice to know that I'm
> not alone in what I'm trying to do!
>
> William B. Lurie

I originally tried using Drive copy but had problems. So I thought through
various disaster scenarios and decided that I was most likely to have an
image to restore from so that is what I use.
Richard.

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