Re: FIXMBR redux

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

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

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 22:05:04 -0400

Dear Michael and Sharon:
You'll be pleased to learn that your efforts and my
persistence seem to have just about solved the problem.
What I did to create a bootable clone of my Master Drive
was essentially this:
Booted Master Drive.
Did msconfig and did Selective Startup.
UNchecked the one startup entry which had Symantec
     in its description. (ccApp, whatever that is)
Rebooted.
Cleared ntbtlog.
Used Drive Image 7 to`Copy Master Drive C: partition to
        Slave Drive, J: partition, first partition on
        the drive, primary, active partition. With MBR.
         I selected the option "Make bootable".
Then I shut down, jumpered Clone as Master, put it in
        "only drive" on the cable, and booted normally,
        but with bootlog, because I expected it to fail.
It fooled me. It booted right up, and I saved its bootlog,
        and the Master's bootlog and Clone bootlog are at

http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/ntbtlog6.txt
                         and
http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billurie/ntbtlog7.txt

I suppose I could carry the test further by actually deactivating
Norton System Works in its own application program, and
making new bootlogs, because both the above still show some Symantec
loading. But there is no need to gild the lily, nor to bother you
nice people interminably. I hope that my efforts might some day
help you to help other poor unfortunates such as I was and am.
And if you want to study the above bootlogs and tell me anything
worthwhile that they tell you, I'd be most happy to learn even
more.

        G'night, and thank you again. 

-- 
                    William B. Lurie