- 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 5:34 PM, Martin N <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Hmm. Guess we're beyond that point then. Maybe there are ways to use a rescue CD to get at the system logs? I'd have to research that more. > > > 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? Yes. www.sysresccd.org - I find it infinitely useful when doing almost any computer-related task. It's not for beginners, though. > > > Martin N > > - 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 <<mailto:martin.n@bluebottle.* >> *com <[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: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
