I have HP laptop running XP with SATA Drive. I've used Acronis Disc
Director (ADD)to regularly make an image onto another SATA drive. However, I
cannot boot from the image drive when I install it; I just get blinking
curser top lleft on black screen ?
This is first time used ADD on SATA drives. Use on PATA drives without
problems.
The online drive is running SATA native mode - I had to to disable this when
installing XP as it insisted there was no drive to install itself on ! Once
installed I renabled (after following procedure to ensure correct drivers
were installed). Irrespective of whether running native mode or not, just
get blinking curser. Any help appreciated.
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