RE: FIXMBR redux
From: Alan F. (F._at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/21/04
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:01:03 -0700
try this... get an old windows 9x start-up floppy and use the dos FDISK command firstly to list the partitions on your cloned drive, and then to set the appropriate one as the boot-up partition (I forget whether it's called boot or system or whatever). I recently found that unless the boot-up partition is marked as such, then XP will simply not boot from it. If no partition is marked as bootable then XP refuses to boot from any partition.
MS has not given the XP user any tools to set the boot partition before XP has already booted up (by which time the tools are not needed). Naturally I think this situation is a pathetic oversight on the part of MS, but I'm sure they'll be really worried by that :-)
Oh, nearly forgot... I had used FIXMBR and some of the other stuff from the XP recovery console but nothing in RC does what the old FDISK does. There's nothing else on the XP installation CD to help.
One more thing... don't worry if FDISK thinks the partition is much smaller than it really is. All we're doing here is setting the flag in the MBR to let XP know which partition it is possible to boot from. Once you have done that, get out of fdisk and boot from your hard disk.
cheers.
"William B. Lurie" wrote:
> I think this leads back to my discussions with, and
> advice from, Michael Solomon a while back.......
>
> 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.
>
> 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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