Guest Thomas_Dallas Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 I have tried to run recovery CD. Boot ini, MBR, no help. I Downloaded "Bootmaster' and it says that my boot partitions are good. I am not sure where to go next. I was originally trying to Mirror my existing HDD with a new HDD (WD) using the LifeGuard tool. It did copy and labeled the drives according..however it did not make my new HDD bootable. I went to repeat the process..(thinking I might have missed a step). Now I have removed the "new" HDD and replaced with the original one...now it wont boot. The data and the partitions are present..in other words I did not accidentaly overwrite or format the wrong drive. Any suggestions? Restarting in "Safe Mode" or from a restore point was also unsuccessful. Thanks for any advice. Thomas -- Greetings_Human
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: XP Home Won't Boot... "Thomas_Dallas" <ThomasDallas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CAEFA109-A4B6-4F4A-92F2-6F6343504734@microsoft.com... >I have tried to run recovery CD. Boot ini, MBR, no help. I Downloaded > "Bootmaster' and it says that my boot partitions are good. I am not sure > where to go next. I was originally trying to Mirror my existing HDD with > a > new HDD (WD) using the LifeGuard tool. It did copy and labeled the drives > according..however it did not make my new HDD bootable. I went to repeat > the > process..(thinking I might have missed a step). Now I have removed the > "new" > HDD and replaced with the original one...now it wont boot. The data and > the > partitions are present..in other words I did not accidentaly overwrite or > format the wrong drive. > Any suggestions? Restarting in "Safe Mode" or from a restore point was > also > unsuccessful. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Thomas > -- > Greetings_Human You should start by reporting how far the boot process goes and what messages (if any) you see on the screen. It is also unclear what you did with your hard disks.
Guest DL Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: XP Home Won't Boot... When you use such a disk utility to clone your hd to a new one, once the process has completed you have to shutdown the pc, disconect old drive & connect new as master before you reboot If this doesnt work then the clone is no good "Thomas_Dallas" <ThomasDallas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:CAEFA109-A4B6-4F4A-92F2-6F6343504734@microsoft.com... >I have tried to run recovery CD. Boot ini, MBR, no help. I Downloaded > "Bootmaster' and it says that my boot partitions are good. I am not sure > where to go next. I was originally trying to Mirror my existing HDD with > a > new HDD (WD) using the LifeGuard tool. It did copy and labeled the drives > according..however it did not make my new HDD bootable. I went to repeat > the > process..(thinking I might have missed a step). Now I have removed the > "new" > HDD and replaced with the original one...now it wont boot. The data and > the > partitions are present..in other words I did not accidentaly overwrite or > format the wrong drive. > Any suggestions? Restarting in "Safe Mode" or from a restore point was > also > unsuccessful. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Thomas > -- > Greetings_Human
Guest Thomas_Dallas Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: XP Home Won't Boot... Sorry, My original HDD boots to the blue windows screen and never changes to the login screen. I never get any message it just sits there. I am using my original HDD, I went to clone it because I was worried that it was about to go out. It was making a lot of seek noise with increased seek times. Thanks for responding Thomas -- Greetings_Human "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > "Thomas_Dallas" <ThomasDallas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:CAEFA109-A4B6-4F4A-92F2-6F6343504734@microsoft.com... > >I have tried to run recovery CD. Boot ini, MBR, no help. I Downloaded > > "Bootmaster' and it says that my boot partitions are good. I am not sure > > where to go next. I was originally trying to Mirror my existing HDD with > > a > > new HDD (WD) using the LifeGuard tool. It did copy and labeled the drives > > according..however it did not make my new HDD bootable. I went to repeat > > the > > process..(thinking I might have missed a step). Now I have removed the > > "new" > > HDD and replaced with the original one...now it wont boot. The data and > > the > > partitions are present..in other words I did not accidentaly overwrite or > > format the wrong drive. > > Any suggestions? Restarting in "Safe Mode" or from a restore point was > > also > > unsuccessful. > > > > Thanks for any advice. > > > > Thomas > > -- > > Greetings_Human > > You should start by reporting how far the boot process goes > and what messages (if any) you see on the screen. It is also > unclear what you did with your hard disks. > > >
Guest Thomas_Dallas Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: XP Home Won't Boot... After the process completed i did as instructed: shut down, removed old installed only new. I would not boot either. I verified that the partitions and data was present, however, the primary boot partition (C:) was not bootable. I was unclear as how to make it "bootable" so thinking that I missed a step, I started the process over and that is when my original HDD started giving me problems. Sorry, I was not very detailed last night. I was frustrated and up late. Thanks for your reply. Thomas -- Greetings_Human "DL" wrote: > When you use such a disk utility to clone your hd to a new one, once the > process has completed you have to shutdown the pc, disconect old drive & > connect new as master before you reboot > If this doesnt work then the clone is no good > > "Thomas_Dallas" <ThomasDallas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:CAEFA109-A4B6-4F4A-92F2-6F6343504734@microsoft.com... > >I have tried to run recovery CD. Boot ini, MBR, no help. I Downloaded > > "Bootmaster' and it says that my boot partitions are good. I am not sure > > where to go next. I was originally trying to Mirror my existing HDD with > > a > > new HDD (WD) using the LifeGuard tool. It did copy and labeled the drives > > according..however it did not make my new HDD bootable. I went to repeat > > the > > process..(thinking I might have missed a step). Now I have removed the > > "new" > > HDD and replaced with the original one...now it wont boot. The data and > > the > > partitions are present..in other words I did not accidentaly overwrite or > > format the wrong drive. > > Any suggestions? Restarting in "Safe Mode" or from a restore point was > > also > > unsuccessful. > > > > Thanks for any advice. > > > > Thomas > > -- > > Greetings_Human > > >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: XP Home Won't Boot... If your mirroring process was OK then you should be able to boot the machine with a WinXP boot floppy disk. You can make one like so: - Format a floppy disk on some other WinXP/2000 PC. Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work. - Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your WinXP CD to A:\ ntldr ntdetect.com - Create a file a:\boot.ini with these lines inside: [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="1 Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="2 Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="3 Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Note that the last three lines start with the word "multi", even though your newsreader might break them into two or three lines. Now boot the machine with each of the options you see until you get it going. Remember to tell the BIOS to boot off the floppy disk drive! "Thomas_Dallas" <ThomasDallas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B6EA14EF-0D28-48CB-B874-B1CA12C61153@microsoft.com... > Sorry, > My original HDD boots to the blue windows screen and never changes to the > login screen. I never get any message it just sits there. I am using my > original HDD, I went to clone it because I was worried that it was about > to > go out. It was making a lot of seek noise with increased seek times. > > Thanks for responding > Thomas > -- > Greetings_Human > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > >> >> "Thomas_Dallas" <ThomasDallas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:CAEFA109-A4B6-4F4A-92F2-6F6343504734@microsoft.com... >> >I have tried to run recovery CD. Boot ini, MBR, no help. I Downloaded >> > "Bootmaster' and it says that my boot partitions are good. I am not >> > sure >> > where to go next. I was originally trying to Mirror my existing HDD >> > with >> > a >> > new HDD (WD) using the LifeGuard tool. It did copy and labeled the >> > drives >> > according..however it did not make my new HDD bootable. I went to >> > repeat >> > the >> > process..(thinking I might have missed a step). Now I have removed the >> > "new" >> > HDD and replaced with the original one...now it wont boot. The data >> > and >> > the >> > partitions are present..in other words I did not accidentaly overwrite >> > or >> > format the wrong drive. >> > Any suggestions? Restarting in "Safe Mode" or from a restore point was >> > also >> > unsuccessful. >> > >> > Thanks for any advice. >> > >> > Thomas >> > -- >> > Greetings_Human >> >> You should start by reporting how far the boot process goes >> and what messages (if any) you see on the screen. It is also >> unclear what you did with your hard disks. >> >> >>
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