Re: XP Repair Installation
From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 12/12/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:25:11 -0500
Richard wrote:
> "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:Ot3MWGs3EHA.1396@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
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>>Doug Knox:
>>
>>Thank you for the following:
>>
>>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx
>>
>>My situation is that my XP came in OEM form, with no
>>Microsoft Installation CD. The "Restore CD" furnished
>>by eMachines will lose all my installed programs and
>>data.
>>
>>It's not out of the question that I might borrow somebody's
>>XP CD, but is there a way to avoid that subterfuge?
>>--
>> William B. Lurie
>
>
>
> Bill,
> How is it that you seem to have painted yourself into a corner and
> need a repair install to put things right? From many of your previous
> posts I got the impression that you back up your master drive to a
> "clone" drive. If this is the case why not install it to recover to a
> fully working system and then restore your data backups as necessary?
>
> Richard.
>
>
Richard, I am really nowhere near as inept or incapable as it
may sound. I've worked with PowerQuest Drive Image to make
an 'image' to then 'restore' to a copy of the original. I've
used PQ-DI-7 to make a Drive Copy. I've used PowerQuest
Partition Magic to "Copy" a Partition (e.g., Master Drive).
There always develop different facets of the same problem:
the cloned master does not boot. I've tried Recovery
Console and Fixboot and FixMBR. I've tried Repair Install.
I do CHKDSK, and I try working in Safe Mode.
The problem is always the same: the resultant clone will
boot fine in Slave position, jumpered as Slave, but only
by a fluke of some sort, not-reproducible, can I get it
to boot in Master position. The problem isn't in making
an exact clone of the Master drive; it's in getting it to
boot in Master position (like when it's running alone).
Your last sentence, Richard: why not? Because it isn't
just data backups. It's dozens of application programs to
be reinstalled from source CDs, or worse. They have to be
reinstalled, because just copying them doesn't do it; their
use is embedded in all the icons on desktop and in the
Registry.
Richard, any of those wise-asses out there who have nothing
better to do than chime in to tell me how dumb I am, just
haven't tried it themselves. With all the traffic you've read
here, it's strange that nobody (including Symantec and Power
Quest and the MVPs) has ever furnished a detailed, step-by-step
procedure, that works. If anybody has one, I'd be happy to
give it a try.
Bill Lurie
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