After 3 long grueling hours with MS, another with IBM - no luck. This drive part is hosed somehow where it boots fine with a floppy, not on the drive. VERY VERY ODD!!! I have narrowed it down to what happens after a post, to talk to the MBR to tell it to go to partition 1 ntldr.
Somewhere, it is not working with the MBR and I have done all mbr fixes out there - even gdisk from symantec. I am now wiping the MBR with zeros, starting over. Get this...even a fresh install of XP to a new folder failed to boot off the drive. How bizarre is that!!!! I always get the bad ones. I was hoping to get a tech from IBM or MS that they just feed well in a corner and they spit out problem like candy. Tell me to enter debug and code the MBR manually to boot right is what I wanted. Now I must waste about 8 more hours to setup this client PC from scratch. This has left a bitter taste regarding any company that puts those stinken hidden partitions in there. Next time we sell laptops, I am wiping them clean and reinstalling. Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Woods, Tony Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:11 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: After Thinkpad ghost, XP does not boot - A Disk Read Error Oc curred What about running GDISK or DELPART to kill everything before you ghost. Been awhile since I was creating XP images but do you need this service partition? Cheers, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Ron Jameson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 5:58 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: After Thinkpad ghost, XP does not boot - A Disk Read Error Occurred I am at wits ends here - wish someone had a program that cures all boot problems. Grr. IBM Thinkpad with that annoying service partition they use running XP Pro. Ghosted drive to image, then image to new drive - same size, model etc. Now at reboot error says A disk read error occurred Press ctrl-alt-del to restart All the data is there, I can boot into sysinternals ERD and see all, chkdsk /r etc. Booted from the XP 6 floppies (MS bug on CD does not get you passed console admin password login) to run fixboot. Nothing. Tried again then fixmbr. Nothing. Ntldr & ntdetect are there. No errors on disk. I even went thru XP install past the F8 agreement and R for repair...is copies system files over. Nothing. Before I call IBM, does anyone have a clue why all appear there, fixboot, fixmbr, chkdsk are doing nothing, XP repairs are doing nothing. After 8 hrs of messing with this, my only hope is to install XP over this, keeping the data but having to reinstall ALL programs for the client. PITA. HELP!!! Regards, Ron Jameson Hamlin Technologies ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&la ng=e nglish To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&la ng=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=nt2000&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
