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From: Robert on 5 Apr 2010 05:06
Hello,
At had a crash on my hard disk, on a Windows Server 2003 partition (on the
other partition I have XP Pro)
Fortunately I made an image disk of that Windows Server 2003 partition (I'm
using Acronis True Image Echo Server) so I expected to restore it. The
restore ran well and finished by the happy message "Restore successful".
My boot.ini is just in the reverse order: XP first, then Win Server 2003. I
don't care but when I try to select Windows Server 2003, I get a black
screen with a minus twinkling sign at the top left.
What did I miss to load Win Server 2003?
Thanks for your help



From: Pegasus [MVP] on 5 Apr 2010 12:03


"Robert" <robert(a)libre.gaulle> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> At had a crash on my hard disk, on a Windows Server 2003 partition (on the
> other partition I have XP Pro)
> Fortunately I made an image disk of that Windows Server 2003 partition
> (I'm using Acronis True Image Echo Server) so I expected to restore it.
> The restore ran well and finished by the happy message "Restore
> successful".
> My boot.ini is just in the reverse order: XP first, then Win Server 2003.
> I don't care but when I try to select Windows Server 2003, I get a black
> screen with a minus twinkling sign at the top left.
> What did I miss to load Win Server 2003?
> Thanks for your help
>

This usually happens when the boot partition is not marked "active". It
could also happen if you restored Windows to a logical rather than a primary
partition.

From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 6 Apr 2010 02:27
>
>
> At had a crash on my hard disk, [...] The restore ran well and
> finished by the happy message "Restore successful". My boot.ini is
> just in the reverse order: XP first, then Win Server 2003. I don't
> care but when I try to select Windows Server 2003, I get a black
> screen with a minus twinkling sign at the top left. [...]
>
It's a sign of the times when that's no longer known as "a blank screen
with the cursor in the top-left-hand corner". (-:

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