Lo,
At 21:53 19/12/2011, you 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.
it does boot most of the way.
If you can boot a SysRescCD disk, you can use the
partclone.ntfsfixboot command to fix the magic number.
Is that a rescue cd downloadable from somewhere?
Martin N
- Alex
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Martin N
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Lo,
At 17:32 19/12/2011, you wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Martin N
<<mailto:[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
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