That message usually means that the bootable partition is NOT marked active,
double check it has an asterick. Also, make sure that THAT drive is the one
attempting to boot. If your BIOS is perhaps pointing to another HD, that
could be a problem too.
Yeah, you could try fixmbr, but I don't think it's the problem. Try it, but
you may have to run fixboot as well:
fixboot c:
This will rewrite the boot sector on that XP partition. Btw, to run either
of these commands, boot the XP CD and get to the repair command console.
There's always the outside chance that the boot sector has one more bad
sectors, and if that is the case, the drive is bad. The boot sector HAS to
work. It's highly unlikely, but it's always something you have to consider.
Finally, the last and only thing you could try is:
bootcfg /rebuild
That would rebuild the boot.ini file, install NTLDR, etc. But that seems
very unlikely to be the problem, it sounds like either a) it's not marked
Active, b) its not the HD attempting to be booted, c) the boot sector on
that partition is corrupted, perhaps due to bad sectors, or d) the boot.ini
and boot files need to be repaired.
If all these fail, I'm at a loss.
Jim
"Neil Bradley" <nb_no_spam@synthcom.com> wrote in message
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> Jim wrote:
> > Ok, so the good news is that this is *probably* a cloning issue w/
Ghost.
> > So here's my recommendation. Understand that there are 1001 ways to
clone
> > the HD. Everyone seems to have their favorite. All I can say is, the
> > following ALWAYS works for me, so it's up to you, feel free to try it or
> > ignore it. It's from a script I've used before, so make adjustments as
> > necessary for your situation, usually for ppl moving to a larger HD.
> >
> > How To Clone Old HD To New HD And Make New HD Bootable
> > [snip]
>
> Thanks for the help, Jim. I followed the instructions to the letter, and
> I get "Missing operating system" when it attempts to boot to the newly
> cloned drive. ;-( I'm wondering if a chkdsk with a "fix MBR" would work...
>
> -->Neil