Re: error loading os
- From: "David Cockram" <david.cockram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:06:24 +0100
That's a very interesting idea. I hadn't realised you could just mirror a
particular partition with raid. However it wouldn't help me here as my main
reason is to have a clean installation of xp & programs which takes many
hours to reinstall. I had a problem prompted by all this whereby one of my
programs just stopped working, and it wouldn't reinstall. The mirror would
have an identical problem.
"Quintin" <Quintin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6428B0FA-F283-4CC6-BB41-085CD34CA768@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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