RE: error loading os

The guys above have covered all software backups pretty well, so could i
suggest another option?

Have you considered a RAID config? That may help in this...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/en-us/dnarntpro00/html/RAID.asp

heres all MS's infro on it
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=raid+how+site%3Amicrosoft.com&btnG=Search&hl=en

Good luck

Cheers

Quintin
MVP wannabe

"David Cockram" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have 2 SATA drives, and I've been struggling to do a simple clone of my
> Seagate C: partiton to a Maxtor F: partition.
> I've tried Ghost 9.0, Acronis True Image 8.0 and other trial software. In
> most cases I got as far as a login screen and it reverted to a plain blue
> screen with cursor. I always remove Seagate before trying to boot with the
> cloned Maxtor. The only thing that did consistently work was Acronis Migrate
> Easy, but the problem is that you need to copy the entire disk. That means
> overwriting the other Maxtor partitions. But it proves that it did work. Now
> why did it, and not the others?
>
> Now whilst playing around with all this I noticed that I was getting 'error
> loading os' when trying to boot. When I went back to Acronis, that was also
> giving this message, and not even attempting to boot as it had previosly
> done. I tried using sysprep with the same result.
>
> Then I tried removing partitions completely from the Maxtor, using fdisk and
> dos to format, using Max Blast to format, using the
> XP repair tool, fixmbr, fixboot. You name it I tried it I think.
>
> So I then thought I'd see if I could install XP on this drive. No, I get the
> same message when it gets to the booting from disk stage.
>
> Firstly, any ideas what could have caused this, and secondly do I need to do
> a low level format to get this drive back to normal shipping condition. If
> so, could someone tell me how, and what software to use, as I've done this
> before.
>
> I've now done a fair bit of reading about cloning. For a lot of people it
> seems to be a completely painless process using Ghost or Acronis. For many
> others including me, it just doesn't seem to work, and I've seen the same
> issues reported over and over with no workable solutions.
>
> Ah well, I'll get there in the end. Maybe sooner with your help. Thanks,
>
> Dave Cockram
>
>
>
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