William, I did not ask the question I meant to ask. I meant to ask, were
both drives connected to the system when you first installed XP on the
primary drive. If not, then XP setup, never saw the second drive. If you
added the drive after you installed XP and then imaged the first drive to
the second drive, that might account for the HAL error as it sees the new
drive, though an image of the first drive as though it were a separate
computer.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
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"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
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Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote:
First, I'm assuming you did, in fact, install the Recovery Console to
your hard drive.

Michael, several months ago you helped me install RC to my Master hard
drive.

Were both hard drives connected to the system when you created the image
of the first drive?

I thought I stated that D-I 7 is on my Master Drive, and I use it to
create a Drive Image on a sepate, Slave Drive. Then I take out and off
the Master Drive, put there instead a newly formatted drive, with
only one 'partition' if you call it that, the full drive. Then I use
PowerQuest's PQRE (Power Quest Recovery Environment) to (supposedly)
create, on the new blank master drive, a clone of the drive that was
there.

Specifically, Drive Image 7 is what PowerQuest supplies for XP.
It is not for 98 or ME or Windows 2000. The furnish Drive Image 6
for earlier systems.

Don't you think that RC has outlived its usefulness on
my system, and may actually be standing in the way of
Drive Image's Restore software from exactly recreating
my drive? If so, I'd appreciate specific instructions on
how to get it out of the way during boot-up.

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William B. Lurie