- 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
>>
>
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