Re: MBR Problem? Help?
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:01:28 -0500
If you want to boot from the hard drive you just copied "to", you have to
change the cables and jumpers on the drive so the drive is the primary
master drive. You can not boot from the 2nd drive while it is connected as a
slave unit.
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Oh_no" <Ohno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Over the past couple of days I upgraded a system with more memory and a
> different HD that I partitioned into 3 logical drives with free space left
> over. Before sending it back to the owners, I wanted to create a ghost
> image
> of the c:. My plan had been to put the image on one of the partitions and
> on
> CD's just in case the HD died.
>
> I must admit to being confused by Ghost 10 and like the old versions
> better.
> To make sure that I was doing "the right thing" I got out an old HD and
> made
> a "copy disk" from c: to the old HD that I'd inserted as slave. My plan
> had
> been to make sure I could boot from it, or from a copy back to another
> disk,
> then I'd know what I was doing was correct. Since I was copying from the
> system disk I chose the option to "copy MBR".
>
> Well, now I cannot boot from either drive. I've check the connections to
> the MB and to the disks themselves. I briefly see the OEM logo screen and
> then it goes into a long displaying the following:
>
> "Client MAC Addr 00 08 74 B8 57 87 GUID
> 444521C4C-5300-1059-8052-B6C04F343231
>
> DHCP
>
> then
>
> PXE - M0f Exit Brodcom PXF ROM
>
> No boot device detetcted, install system disk and press F1 to continue"
>
> What have I done to myself and how do I get out of it?
>
> I used Symantec's Recovery Disk and attempted to perform a disk recovery.
> It wasn't able to find any restore points in the normal places and allowed
> me
> to browse. I wasn't able to find any restore points or anything on the
> "old
> disk", but the new one that I had partitioned most certainly has all the
> files. Window is there; the partitions are there with the data I
> expected,
> but I just can't boot from it.
>
> I removed the "old disk" so that now only the new disk with 3 partitions
> is
> installed. I booted from the OEM XP Recovery disk, entered "R" for
> repairing
> an installation, entered the admin password, then fixmbr. Nothing was
> stated
> and I'm thinking it just went back to the prompt. Anyway, after
> performing
> the fixmbr, and rebooting I'm still getting the same messagesabout not
> finding a boot disk.
>
> I see there is a FIXBOOT but don't want to go much further w/o assistance
> from someone who knows what is going on. This will be a learning
> experience,
> but I really didn't plan for that tonight!
>
> Thanks!
>
.
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