Re: FIXMBR redux

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:15:06 -0400

Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote:
> The problem occurs when you try to boot the slave, is that correct? Even if
> you change the slave to the master, the former slave drive has a cloned
> image from a different hard drive of an OS installation that was installed
> while the slave drive was not installed. I'm not sure if even having it
> installed would make a difference but the error you mention is typical of
> trying to image to a different computer than the one on which XP was
> originally installed.
>
> I can only deduce from that and what you have described and the fact the
> slave hard drive was not connected to this computer when the OS was
> installed that it is being seen as a different computer.
>
No, that is not correct, Michael.
I have a hard drive.
I make a drive image of it.
That image happens to be on a different hard drive,
but it could just as well have been on a set of CDs.
I want to make an operating system out of that
image. You've stated that the error I mentioned is
typical of trying to image to a different computer than the
one on which XP was originally installed.

You are implying that no error would occur if I put
the OS back on the 'computer' where it was. That does
not make sense to me, because Drive Images and Ghosts
are used daily in cases where a drive fails altogether
and the Ghost or Dive Image is used to recreate the
system on a totally new drive. I don't think the
instructions imply any restrictions on the physical
medium to which the Image is restored.

I think that Sharon or somebody gave us a different
line of reasoning, that D-I can't handle this complicated
an MBR, one with a choice of OS or RC. That's why I asked
you to help me restore my original master OS to the
condition where, in boot-up, it acts as though there is
no such thing as a Recovery Console. That's the way it was
when you helped me install the RC. 

-- 
                    William B. Lurie

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