So just reinstall the recovery console. I have had to do that because =
after restoring an image (TrueImage7 www.acronis.com) the RC was not =
accessible.

As far as the MBR is concerned, I did a fresh install of XP, ran RC from =
the CD, and fix MBR found that the MBR was corrupted or not standard, I =
left it alone this time and it is working fine.

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Just my 2=A2 worth
Jeff
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"William B. Lurie" wrote in message =
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| I think this leads back to my discussions with, and
| advice from, Michael Solomon a while back.......
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| William B. Lurie
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