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Number   :  10793
Date     :  2005-03-16
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re: Cloning a dual-boot Win2K system
Size(KB) :  2


Jonathan,

Dana recently had an error message similar to your own and she found that
the root of her problem was that the partitions created by the file
management software were corrupted. Can you determine if the same has
happened to yours?

The following are links to her first and last email.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/10664

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/10699


Dan A

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jonathanberry_ca" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: [xxcopy] Cloning a dual-boot Win2K system


>
>
> I am attempting to clone two dual-boot Win2K systems onto new hard
> drives.
>
> The first system is a dual-boot Win98 / Win2K notebook system. The
> boot drive is drive C: (a FAT32 primary partition) with a BOOT.INI
> which gives the choice of booting to C:\WINDOWS or E:\WINNT (the
> default). In fact, booting to C: doesn't work anymore, I don't know
> why. It just gives a black screen with a blinking underline. But
> OK, I'm not going to worry about that. The Win2K system partition E
> is a logical drive on an extended partition, also FAT32.
>
> I started by cloning the E partition. There were three error
> messages:
> 1. The NTLDR file not found in the source volume.
> 2. The NTDETECT.COM file not found in the source volume.
> 3. No Active Partition found in the Target Disk.
> You should initialize the MBR by a REPAIR operation.
>
> but the cloning completed successfully.
>
> Then I cloned the C partition. I got the same error messages 1. and
> 2.; this cloning also completed successfully. I checked the copy of
> C and found that the two mentioned files do exist on the copy, in the
> root directory (amongst other places).
>
> So I then swapped drives and my Thinkpad 600E produced the error
> message I9990305 which means non-bootable disk. So I swapped the
> disks back and "repair"ed the copy of the C: partition to be bootable
> (Write MBR, Write Boot sector). I did not write a new BOOT.INI
> because the old one was fine.
>
> I swapped the drives and got this peculiar message from the Thinkpad,
> right after POST:
>
> Remove disks or other media.
> Press any key to restart.
>
> (re-entrantly).
>
> So that's where I am on this project.
>
> My next project will be to clone a dual booting Win2K / Win2K desktop
> hard drive to a larger drive.
>
> I've cloned systems before, "the hard way".
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Berry
>



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