William B. Lurie said in :
I think this leads back to my discussions with, and
advice from, Michael Solomon a while back.......

Since 'solving' the problems of creating a drive image
of my master hard drive with Drive Image 7, and creating
a clone of that drive with its PowerQuest Recovery
Environment software, I've been living is a fool's
paradise. I discovered this when I went to create the
monthly Drive Image yesterday, and create the clone on
a newly purchased hard drive.

I've been living with my Master drive booting to a
choice between normal start-up and Recovery Console,
a minor annoyance because after a ten-second countdown
it goes to normal boot, automatically. No problem there.

I believe that the main part of the problem is now that
the new exact clone does not have Master Boot Record
correct, because the 'Normal Boot' path leads to the
choices of Safe Mode or Normal etcetera, and no choice
gets to anything other than a repeat of that set of
choices. If I select Recovery Console, I get a short
DOS-type message saying that file 'xxxxx.dll' is missing,
and to reload it somehow from somewhere. I suspect that
more than one '.dll' file will be in the list of what it
needs. I tried selecting Recovery Console, hoping that I
could somehow do a FIXMBR there, but I can't get to RC.

Incidentally, in running Drive Image, I've repeated the
whole image-and-recreate process, with and without the
'keep the MBR' option, with no apparent difference in
results. I've tried to solve the problem without going to
you experts, but what I've considered all logical paths
haven't solved it.

William B. Lurie

Although PartitionMagic is great at managing partitions, it doesn't let
you save the contents of the MBR. Neither does DriveImage since it
creates image filesets for the partition and doesn't include the MBR.
You mentioned a "keep the MBR" option. Is this something new in their
latest version 7? I have DriveImage 2002 (and prior versions) and that
was not an option.

If PartitionMagic or DriveImage really don't include the MBR in whatever
version you have, and if you were looking to copy the MBR from the
source drive to the cloned drive, use mbrutil from Powerquest. Go to:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis.../pq/utilities/

and download head.zip. You can also use tools like MBRtool
(http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/~tkuurstra/mbrtool.htm). If you know the
bootstrap program is larger than 460 bytes and usurps the unused portion
of track 0 then be sure to save the entire track 0 rather than just the
MBR section (sector 0). Some multiboot managers will use the rest of
track 0 for their code or for an extended partition table (if they
support more than 4 partitions). You could save the MBR or track 0 onto
a floppy and then use the mbrutil or MBRtool to restore it onto the
cloned drive.

With the message regarding hal.dll missing, did you perchance change the
power saving settings in the BIOS from ACPI to APM or visa versa? Have
you tried running the Repair function from the install CD?

You can configure the timeout for the boot menu. System applet in
Control Panel, Advanced, Startup and Recovery button,

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