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Number   :  9436
Date     :  2004-12-06
Author   :  m_surgenor
Subject  :  Re: Drive restore gone wrong
Size(KB) :  2




Having had some spare time today I read some of the other XXCLONE 
threads on restores in here... If nothing else I've learned that by 
far the better resolution to my original problem would have been just 
to use my target drive as my new 'system' disk. I'm also having 
second thoughts now on my partitioning and backup strategy. For any 
other 'newbies' I recommend Kan's message #8446.

However I am where I am and what I can't understand is why I can't 
still just use my target (backup) drive. It boots ok but as g:\ and 
all the program icons, etc point to c:\. Can't I just change the 
drive letter with the W2K disk management tool? 

Malcolm

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "m_surgenor"  wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the pointers Pat. I did notice your earlier thread and 
> wondered about the similarities! :)
> 
> However I've now moved on a little bit without having to resort to 
a 
> LLF.
> 
> (In the meantime another PC, the one that controls all my home 
> automation crashed last night [it's rarely re-booted] and when I 
> rebooted it I was told there was no boot device! A quick W2K 
repair 
> with the emergency repair disk I had for that machine cured it but 
I 
> think I'll replace that HD soon. It never rains but it pours!).
> 
> Anyway back to my original problem. I managed to borrow a W2K 
> installation disk from a friend today (just to get me moving until 
my 
> own comes you understand!).
> 
> I now have a PC that is bootable again and I want to use XXCLONE 
> again but before i do can i just check out if anyone thinks this 
will 
> work or not please?!
> 
> Before my problems started I had two HDs partioned as follows;
> 
> HD 0 P1 - my c:\ drive my system disk with all my programs
> HD 0 P2 - my d:\ drive with all my data, docs, etc
> 
> HD 1 P1 - my g:\ drive - a weekly backup of c:\ using XXCLONE
> HD 1 P2 - my h:\ drive - a nightly backup of d:\ using XXCOPY
> 
> After my problems below, my c:\ drive was wiped and reformatted. 
My 
> g:\ drive I could boot from but I always got the "winlogon.exe has 
> encountered errors etc" error.
> 
> I got my friends W2K disc, installed a fresh copy of W2K on c:\ and 
> was able to boot from c:\.
> 
> Drive g:\ still looked ok so I thought I'd try to boot from that - 
it 
> does! The only problem is all the programs icons on g:\ have 
> properties that point to c:\.
> 
> I'm not really sure what the 'best' way forward is. 
> 
> One half of me says, in the long term, it would be best just to 
carry 
> on re-installing all my programs on the nice clean c:\. However 
> that's another couple of days work and I've been without my PC for 
> three days now as it is.
> 
> My other thought is to do an XXCLONE from g:\ to c:\.
> 
> Or are there other ways forward just by changing drive letters??
> 
> Any assitance will be gratefully received. TIA
> 
> Malcolm



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