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Old July 3rd 04, 07:41 PM
William B. Lurie
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Default FIXMBR Redux

Andrew, you didn't read your mail. You told me that, and
I did just that, and I reported back to you how and why I
could not boot to XP CD.

I get a DOS message:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\Windows\System32\config\system

Can attempt to repair file by starting Windows Setup using original
CD-ROM, select 'r' at first screen."

I have an OEM machine and no genuine CD-ROM. My OEM is useless.
And I have two copied CD-ROMs but neither one will start...I tried both
in both CD-ROM drives. It's all there, what XCOPY copied.....but I've
had this result with every clone method that I've tried. You are right,
that XCOPY is the most simple and straightforward clone
method........but it leads me to the same bind that the others do.

Andrew E wrote:
You should have used XCOPY in xp for cloneing the hd,it works...
If the drive happens to be missing files/folders you should run as
master,boot to xp cd,select,install xp,repair xp.Or you can run youre 3rd
party noncense and figure out all the problems like you have...

"William B. Lurie" wrote:


Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote:

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.



Michael, I am back on the cloning matter, and followed your advice
as mentioned above. I found 'head' and 'mbrutil', and unzipped
and created a folder for those files. But from their shorthand,
I can't seem to find a syntax for MBRUTIL which will recover the MBR
and save it to a file (named, say 'savedmbr.xxx' where I don't
know what extension to use), and then, if I can save that file,
just how do I apply it to my cloned hard drive, running as
D:, my Slave Drive?

And, while I'm about it, you'll recall that booting asks for choice
of XP or RC, with a 10-second default at the moment. Since mine
won't go to RC anyway if I were to select that option, claiming
that some .dll file is missing, can you tell me how to eliminate that
option altogether (not just set it to zero time, but delete the option)?
I wouldn't do it on my Master Drive, because I'd be afraid of breaking
it, but it's something I can do on the Slave while running the Master.
It might even help it to become bootable.

Thank you.

William B. Lurie




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