Re: FIXMBR redux

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From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:17:04 -0400

Tried that, Geoff. Cannot get to Recovery Console. I put in the XP-CD,
rebooted. It gave me choice of going to XP or to RC. I chose RC, and
instead of finding it on the hard drive (where it was on the drive I did
the Image of), or on the CD, it stopped with message "file missing
or corrupt system32/hal.dll ......Please install a copy of that file."
Of course, it didn't tell me how to install it, even assuming I can find
in on the CD, where, if I find it, I expect it to be a ".dl_" file and
not .dll..
                      Bill L.

Geoffw wrote:

>boot from your cd and go to recovery console from there, I
>assume it recognises the new clone as the OS when you search
>for it via RC
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>use fixmbr and fixboot
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>I had a similar problem and this has resolved them for me
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>good luck
>
>Geoff
>
>"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
>news:40BC5F65.3070603@nospam.org...
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>>I think this leads back to my discussions with, and
>>advice from, Michael Solomon a while back.......
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>>Since 'solving' the problems of creating a drive image
>>of my master hard drive with Drive Image 7, and creating
>>a clone of that drive with its PowerQuest Recovery
>>Environment software, I've been living is a fool's
>>paradise. I discovered this when I went to create the
>>monthly Drive Image yesterday, and create the clone on
>>a newly purchased hard drive.
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>>I've been living with my Master drive booting to a
>>choice between normal start-up and Recovery Console,
>>a minor annoyance because after a ten-second countdown
>>it goes to normal boot, automatically. No problem there.
>>
>>I believe that the main part of the problem is now that
>>the new exact clone does not have Master Boot Record
>>correct, because the 'Normal Boot' path leads to the
>>choices of Safe Mode or Normal etcetera, and no choice
>>gets to anything other than a repeat of that set of
>>choices. If I select Recovery Console, I get a short
>>DOS-type message saying that file 'xxxxx.dll' is missing,
>>and to reload it somehow from somewhere. I suspect that
>>more than one '.dll' file will be in the list of what it
>>needs. I tried selecting Recovery Console, hoping that I
>>could somehow do a FIXMBR there, but I can't get to RC.
>>
>>Incidentally, in running Drive Image, I've repeated the
>>whole image-and-recreate process, with and without the
>>'keep the MBR' option, with no apparent difference in
>>results. I've tried to solve the problem without going to
>>you experts, but what I've considered all logical paths
>>haven't solved it.
>>
>> William B. Lurie
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                   William B. Lurie

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