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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Burning ISO Images and/or a Recovery CD or DVD.
If the drive isn't the primary active partition then of course it won't
boot. I've successfully restored several boot drives from Ghost images
that I made from that particular drive & have even done it
What do you define as booting? My question is at what point of failure do
you declare it did not boot? When I have these failures mine gets as far as
a screen blue in color (not a blue screen of death) with the Windows XP Logo
on it and just hangs there with the hourglass.
I have never consciously (did something specifically to cause the hard drive
to become active) did this, especially with NTFS partitions. I have done it
a time or two with fdisk when I was using FAT 32 partitions. If we conclude
I missed something here, what should I do to make the target hard drive
active? For all of my hard drives I use the hard drive manufacturers
bootable CD which gives me a GUI interface. I use the Windows XP SP 1 or
greater selection and then I partition the drive with at least 2 NTFS
partitions.
This is unusual. I do not have this problem every time. It most often occurs
when I am doing a trial run to just see if it will work. A few months ago I
had to replace a hard drive that was only 3 months old on a new build. I
keep ghost clones on hard drives with 10 partitions each (this serves 10
customers per drive) of my tweaked Windows XP installations. These clones
(no compression) average from 3 to 5 GB, depending on how many things I
install etc. I simply partitioned and formatted a new hard drive for my
customer and ghosted (I guess we still call it Real DOS Mode as I did not
boot into Windows XP) her clone to her new C Drive partition. Presto! Her
computer booted into Windows XP with her new hard drive. This saved me 3
hours of in-warranty labor! I was a very happy camper!
My point is it does work for me sometimes, when I change hard drives.
Chuck
