On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote:
I've run into this from time to time, and have been forced to use Ghost to get
around it, but this time Ghost won't do the copy, so I can't go that route.
Here's the issue:
I've got a drive that boots, but is starting to die, so I want to copy from it
(80GB) to a (160GB) - this is on a Dell Inspiron, btw.
Ghost copies about 90% and then gives up, so I used TI. TI complains about
bad sectors, but completes the copy, and the main partition appears to be
identical to the original. The problem is, it won't boot. I've set the
partition as active, but that makes no difference. Would fixmbr or fixboot
work?
T
SpinRite the drive before the ghost?
You can also try to fix the boot sector, worst case is it doesn't work,
causes a blackhole to form in your living room and all of the known
universe is sucked in like a cherry pie in front of a 500lb walmart
shopper. We've all seen worse I'm sure.
Christopher Fisk
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The salesman drove over the CPU board.
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