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

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Could try this article. GL

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"I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself...."

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.

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.

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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!

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Don't worry Sony, I'll just cancel my date of birth and get a new one.

Lol Gmar,

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

:D:D

These arent the droids your looking for, move along, move along...

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"I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself...."