I've had a lot of luck correcting problems like that with Bootit NG (replaced by Bootit Bare Metal).
Mike At 03:53 PM 12/19/2011 -0600, Alex Austin wrote: >If the cloning program did move the XP partition, and isn't XP aware, this >is the symptom. The ntfs boot code is disk-relative rather than >partition-relative. If the partition it's on starts at a different LBA >position on disk, Windows XP won't boot. > >If you can boot a SysRescCD disk, you can use the partclone.ntfsfixboot >command to fix the magic number. > >- Alex >-- >It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of >yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. > > >On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Martin N <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lo, >> >> At 17:32 19/12/2011, you wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Martin N <<mailto:martin.n@bluebottle.**>> >> com <[email protected]>>[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I actually did the restore on my desktop PC ie image file on desktop HD >>> and the new HD in the e-SATA dock. >>> >>> >>> That could possibly be your problem right there. Do the restore on the >>> ThinkPad itself, with the new HD (unpartitioned) in the ThinkPad's internal >>> drive bay. This way the drive geometry is correct. >>> >> >> If the geometry is incorrect wouldn't XP not boot at all? >> XP stalls on the splash screen with the blue background. >> >> >> Martin N >> >> Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of >> MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> >> >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
