Re: re boot problem after replacing hard drive

Pegasus is in Australia. He is now back on air.

It seems the floppy boot idea did not work - it resulted in the same
problem as you had in the first place. Time to stand back and take
stock of the situation.

If I understand you correctly, you have two disks:
- The old disk, which contains a working copy of WinXP Home.
- The new disk, which contains a copy of WinXP Home that
you generated by a recovery process. If fails with the
"unmountable boot drive" message, whether booted directly
or by WinXP floppy boot disk.

Please confirm that this is correct.

At this stage I am inclined to ditch the contents of the new disk
and run some experiments. Are you comfortable with this?

Do you have access to any of the following:
a) A PC with a CD burner
b) A WinXP Professional CD (no licence number needed)
c) A desktop PC running WinXP or Win2000
d) A copy of Acronis TrueImage
e) The disk cloning program that most disk suppliers make
freely available on their web site
f) Can you temporarily install both disks in your PC?


"mikec" <mikec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5C0DBD13-9A3D-442A-A3D3-813A32DFB4E8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I am looking for any help with the following problem. I recently bought
a
> new hard drive. I fitted it, and used a cd from the manufacturers to
format
> it. My PC recognised it and I reloaded all my embedded software on to the
> new drive.
>
> The OC seemed to work normally until I tried to restart and I received the
> following message on restarting my PC.
>
> unmountable boot drive:
>
> this was on a blue screen with white writing. The was firther text
stating
> that if I had changed any software or hardware to try again or remove it.
>
> My system is a
> packard bell i media 5096
> intel pentium 4 2. 66 Ghz
>
> The new drive appears to be working properly but will not re boot.
>
> Can any one help please or point me in the direction of someone who can?
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read this


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