Re: fixmbr craters drive (started from Drive Image 5.0 problem)
From: LB (mrgates_at_spamed.com)
Date: 03/15/04
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:38:50 -0700
second set of error messages corrected.
"LB" <mrgates@spamed.com> wrote in message
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> I was trying to use Drive Image 5.0 (xp w/sp1 and all updates) to copy a
> EIDE drive image to a new SATA Drive. Run Drive Image from Window XP, to
> boot to dos. This faile with the following messages:
>
> |..
> Err 5: Error finding VFLOPPY.SYS
> Err 8: Fake Floppy driver not found
> Press any key to boot active partition
>
> Windows XP came up fine. Shutdown hoping next reboot of system and the
> error message would go way. No such luck, it appeared again, but Windows
XP
> came up.
>
> In order try and clear up the message Drive Image 5.0 left behind, I tried
> the Windows Recover Console, used the recover option that put me into, a
> subset?, of DOS.
>
> Ran the fixmbr program to the C-drive. Ok, I glanced at the warnings, and
> should have backed up more stuff, but did not.....
>
> fixmbr ran. Now have lost the C-drive all together.
>
> Now get the following messages on power-up:
>
>
> |..
> Err 5: Error finding VFLOPPY.SYS
> Err 8: Fake Floppy driver not found
> Press any key to boot active partition
>Invalid Partition Table
>
> <hangs>
>
> I had previously installed WinXP on SATA drive (with the EIDE drive
> disconnected). Installed fine, but does not have all the programs and
data
> from orginal system (hence the reason for the drive image copy...), so I
> connected the EIDE drive and powered up. THe SATA winxp system came up
> find, discovered the EIDE drive (two partitions). But the 'old C-Drive'
> hows Local Disk with a file system of RAW. The second partition on the
> drive looks fine (IE: Has a NTFS filesytem on it and I can browse the few
> files I have on it no problem).
>
> As a sidebar: I was able to boot with Drive Image CD and found a PTEDIT
> tool. When looking at the Parition Table, I do not see whats wrong, etc.
>
> What sector or sectors are messed up on the old C-drive that I need to
fix?
> How does not go about that?
>
>
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