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Number   :  6744
Date     :  2004-01-05
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re: Boot drive problem (xxclone)
Size(KB) :  2


Ron, pending a response from others, these are some initial thoughts.

I guess this happened after you used XXCLONE (from C) to create a bootable
XP partition on F.

I'm guessing that in all your steps you had not changed which hard drive was
your boot drive (the one containing C) and the C boot.ini file has now been
directing you to boot into F as the default XP partition rather than using
the C windows directory etc. If you open the C boot.ini file with a text
editor you can see how it does that.

The simple answer might be to go into SETUP when you boot the computer and
change which hard drive is your primary boot drive. Then it will boot into
F but using the F boot.ini file. I expect you would then be able to format
the other hard drive (losing both C and D), but that does not really seem
necessary since you have the alternative of running XXCLONE from F with F as
your source and C as your destination, and for D you have the option of
running xxcopy to update it based on the current contents of G. Whatever
you do, keep an eye on the contents of both C and/or F boot.ini files
(depending which will be on your boot hard drive) so that you can see what
is happening and which is the correct option.


Good luck.

Dan


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----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Hossack 
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:02 AM
Subject: [xxcopy] Boot drive problem


I noticed a slight problem created by myself and not sure how to
correct this. System
is XP Pro.

My HD is divided into to partitions, "C" for windows files and "D" for
everything else.

After making a complete bootable backup to my drive ("F" for windows
and "G" for
everything else) I never noticed (because I didn't pay attention to
boot selection) that
when starting the machine would always boot from "F".

But all updates and files dowsnloads were on drive "D" were updated and
the original
Windows on "C" was never updated. So drive "F" (on backup drive) was
updated and
drive "D" on original HD was updated.

I tried to format "C" so I could use XXCLONE to copy "F" back to drive
"C" but it will not
allow me to.

Any simple suggestions before I remove this drive and format it
completely or did I totally
confuse everyone?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Ron Hossack
rhossack@c...


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