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Author:  Sleeper Service=GCHQ= [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:42 am ]
Post subject:  Cloning a hard drive
I used Acronis migrate easy to clone my old IDE drive to a larger SATA drive but when I plug the new one in by itself it says it cant find /ntldr.

Acronis said it copied over the mbr so it should be a matter of it working straight away shouldnt it.

I havent tried to plug both drives in at the same time because I wasnt sure of having 2 drives that are essentially the same being plugged in together. Oh and I cant remember the administrator password so I cant use the recovery console. :(

Any help appreciated
Author:  Arma [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:46 am ]
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Could try this article. GL
Author:  PARABOLIC [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:47 pm ]
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i think you problem lies within the boot.ini file, the string which is pointing to your windows directory is incorrect, its usually something like:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

i think its something todo with the 0 and 1 in there, I could be wrong though.
Author:  Sleeper Service=GCHQ= [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:13 pm ]
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No it wasnt that. IT just couldnt find ntldr even though it was there.

I have done a nice clean install on the new drive and have plugged the old one back in to play games this arvo amd will do the program install tomorrow.
Author:  gemma=GCHQ= [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:44 pm ]
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Personally I'd attempt installing grub, this is typically a Linux bootloader but is perfectly at home booting Windows. I think you would need to make a small partition to hold the grub files. A Mepis Live cd has all you would need to make the partition and install Grub into it, don't ask me how though I'd wing it!
Author:  Arma [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:02 am ]
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Gmar=GCHQ= wrote:
Personally I'd attempt installing grub, this is typically a Linux bootloader but is perfectly at home booting Windows. I think you would need to make a small partition to hold the grub files. A Mepis Live cd has all you would need to make the partition and install Grub into it, don't ask me how though I'd wing it!


Lol Gmar,

A good idea but probably best not to scare the poor boy with all this crazy linux talk..

:D:D:D

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