unreadabl text when windows starts

[mike g]

thanks for the help Malke
I have another "GOOD" HD and have tryed to copy the entire
disk over to the new drive using the new drives copy
utility BUT it stops copying after 7% is reached- and
gives me an error stateing that "copying can not contiue
the are errors on the source disk-try runing disk defrag
and scandisk and retry"
So I have tryed this 3 times but get the same error.
Is it possible to copy one drive to another- even if the
source disk has errors?
One more thing I tryed...
I have been told to run this at the command promt--
Xcopy c:\*.* F:/h/e/c/k/r/y (F) is my new drive letter)
after copying is compleat the new disk is un bootable due
to error message Windows XP could not start because the
following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I really would like to avoid a fresh install of XP
..

[Richard Urban]

Partition the new drive with 2 partitions. Make partition C: at least as
large as your old drive. Then, boot up with your old drive - you did say
that you could do this, right. Copy what you want to save onto the 2nd
partition of the new drive.

Now that you are safe, you can try to repair the old drive by running chkdsk
with the /r option. If the old drive can be repaired, this will do it. If
the old drive can not be reclaimed enough to copy over to the new C:
partition, at least your information is safe. That being the case, remove
the old drive. Set the new drive as master/single. Install the Windows XP to
the new drive, being certain that, during install, you have pointed it to
the first partition which will end up being C:

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

"mike g" > wrote in message
...
> thanks for the help Malke
> I have another "GOOD" HD and have tryed to copy the entire
> disk over to the new drive using the new drives copy
> utility BUT it stops copying after 7% is reached- and
> gives me an error stateing that "copying can not contiue
> the are errors on the source disk-try runing disk defrag
> and scandisk and retry"
> So I have tryed this 3 times but get the same error.
> Is it possible to copy one drive to another- even if the
> source disk has errors?
> One more thing I tryed...
> I have been told to run this at the command promt--
> Xcopy c:\*.* F:/h/e/c/k/r/y (F) is my new drive letter)
> after copying is compleat the new disk is un bootable due
> to error message Windows XP could not start because the
> following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
> \CONFIG\SYSTEM
>
> I really would like to avoid a fresh install of XP
> .
>
>

[Richard Urban]

Also, you can't copy using the copy command. Use Drive Image 2002 (from DOS
boot disks) or Ghost 2003 (also from DOS Boot Disks) to perform a
sector-by-sector copy.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

"mike g" > wrote in message
...
> thanks for the help Malke
> I have another "GOOD" HD and have tryed to copy the entire
> disk over to the new drive using the new drives copy
> utility BUT it stops copying after 7% is reached- and
> gives me an error stateing that "copying can not contiue
> the are errors on the source disk-try runing disk defrag
> and scandisk and retry"
> So I have tryed this 3 times but get the same error.
> Is it possible to copy one drive to another- even if the
> source disk has errors?
> One more thing I tryed...
> I have been told to run this at the command promt--
> Xcopy c:\*.* F:/h/e/c/k/r/y (F) is my new drive letter)
> after copying is compleat the new disk is un bootable due
> to error message Windows XP could not start because the
> following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
> \CONFIG\SYSTEM
>
> I really would like to avoid a fresh install of XP
> .
>
>