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Number   :  9102
Date     :  2004-11-01
Author   :  John
Subject  :  Re: XXCLONE Failure to boot 1st time
Size(KB) :  2


Follow up on this initial boot problem after some more testing of XXCLONE.

Having previously cloned a 60gb FAT32 disk to a 200gb NTFS disk and got the
initial boot failure (see previous post) I decided to try cloning with
identical physical disks (same manufacturer and model) and eliminate bios
and cable/jumper settings as the problem.

So .. with drive 0 (ide primary 0) as 200 gb NTFS XP pro single ptn I
fitted another new 200gb disk as drive 1(ide slave 0) and formatted NTFS.

Then performed an XXCLONE using full clone option (1st menu option) of drive
0 to drive 1 - I also used option to have a boot floppy created just in
case.

After cloning I initialy removed the original drive 0 and tried booting with
just the new cloned drive in situ - this failed with message "Press any key
to reboot". To eliminate problem being caused by BIOS "remembering" what old
boot drive was I reset bios boot specs - still no boot. Then went thru
various cable, jumper and single/dual drive configs to see if any of these
in comination with old bios settings were causing boot failure. Regardless
of setup the cloned drive refused to boot.

Finally put config back to original drive 0 source and drive 1 target and
used XXCLONE to *just* copy MBR. After this the cloned drive booted fine
(initially get the Congratulations dialoge from XXCLONE). Btw I never had to
resort to using the XXclone boot floppy.

Conclusion:
XXCLONE seems to have a problem somewhere setting up the MBR on full clone
operations.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: [xxcopy] XXCLONE Failure to boot 1st time


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> Testing xxclone on XP Pro:-
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> 1. Installed new 2nd IDE drive as slave.
> 2. Initialised new drive single ptn NTFS (200gb).
> 3. XXclone (full clone) drive 0 (160gb FAT32) to new drive 1 -reported
> finished OK and bootable.
> 4. Swapped slave and master jumpers on drives.
> 5. Tried reboot - got message agter POST "Press any key to boot" .. press
a
> key and repeats ad infinitum.
> 6. Swapped drive jumpers back.
> 7. Used XXclone to reset MBR on new drive.
> 8. Swapped jumpers again and rebooted with just new drive installed.
> 9. This time came up with "this is 1st boot after xxclone op " etc. and XP
> Pro working.
> 10. Installed orginal drive back in and working OK too.
>
> Not sure what went wrong 1st time - or is this expected?
>
> Incidentally checked all installed apps. and 99% worked OK including MS
> Office products. One which did not work simply required re-entry of
licence
> code or original CD to verify code etc.
>
> Later used xxcopy to "clone" a logical drive off the orginal drive into a
> directory on new drive - worked without a hitch.
>
> All in all pretty impressive.
>
> John
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