Re: URGENT - Help Needed with TOTAL System Restore

Here's the MS Knowledge Base article that describes the Recovery
Console commands. Believe I gave you bad advice, the command
you're interested in is BootCfg / Rebuild - Not FixBoot.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058/EN-US/
Close only counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades - PC advice
should be a little more precise.

"Desperate" <Desperate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh that makes total sense. Thanks so much!

Is there a resource that you can point me to that will walk me through
steps
that I need to take? I do know how to reach the Recovery Condole, but have
no
clue what to do when I get to the C:WINDOWS> prompt. How do I need to
customize the Fixboot command?

Thanks again!!!



"R. McCarty" wrote:

Sorry, that should read take the Recovery Console option.

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your partitioning scheme changed. The Dell PC hard drive has a number
of partitions not present on your replacement drive. You need to boot
to
the XP disk, taking the Repair option and perform a Fixboot command.
Likely the Retrospect recovery is installing the original Boot.Ini file
which is pointing to partition(2) instead of (1) which is what your
current config
is using.

"Desperate" <Desperate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry for the duplicate posting form the other forum, but I'm in a
really
bad
situation.

I am very diligent about doing a nightly full system backup. I backup
to
an
external USB drive using Retrospect HD. This software does a
progressive
nightly backup of my ENTIRE hardrive, including the operating system.

Two days ago my hard drive crashed. I've installed a new hard drive
and
installed the version of XP-Pro that shipped with my Dell desktop
about 3
years ago. My plan was to install just the OS and then install my
backup
software and use it to reinstall everything from my backup drive. I
was
hoping that my backup would overwrite the version of XP with my most
recent
backed up version, along with all my programs, data, and settings.

Here's the problem.

I've gone through the process 3 times of reinstalling XP, and then
restoring
all of my backed up data. All my data appears to be present -- I can
see
all
of the files on the system after they are reinstalled, BUT the system
will
not boot from the new hard drive after I power down. I get the
following
error message:

"Windows could not start because of a hardware configuration problem.
Could
not read from the selection boot disk. Check boot path and disk
hardware.

Please check the Windows documentation about hardware dis
configuration
and
your hardware reference manuals for additional information."

At this point my system get's stuck in a loop and XP will not load.
The
only
place I can get to is the BIOS. I have confired that my new hard drive
is
set
to the Primary Master drive.

I'd really hate to have to reinstall all of my programs, settings,
etc.
manually. I feel like I'm so close to getting this right , but I'm
missing
something.

Was I incorrect to think that simply restoring all of my data would
override
the basic installation of XP?

I've been messing with this for 2 days and I'm about to pull my hair
out.
ANY suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help--

Signed,

Desperate









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