PS Re: How to clone Windows XP back to your HD?
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From: Twayne on 28 Apr 2010 13:20 PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up. Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD". HTH, Twayne` In news:0461e6b1-9f07-42a2-b5e1-da8daaf4969c(a)r1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, Carl <carlhammel1(a)gmail.com> typed: > On Apr 24, 9:50 am, Carl <carlhamm...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Apr 21, 2:59 pm, "Tim Meddick" <timmedd...(a)gawab.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Carl, I am so sorry to hear of your continued problems. >> >>> However, I am truly heartened by your tenacity in getting >>> the USB Recovery Console fully working for yourself. >> >>> One thing - because you logged on to C:\WINDOWS you know >>> your XP partition is still there, along with all your >>> personal data! >> >>> The next thing I would have advised, would be to start-up >>> your PC with a Win98 floppy boot-disk. I would then have >>> instructed you to type the command FDISK - which would >>> list any partitions that still exist on the boot device. >>> If the XP partition still existed you could make it >>> bootable. >> >>> But, as we are talking about a Netbook, this won't be >>> possible. >> >>> BTW - You are getting "GRUB loading" because the >>> boot-sector (a small hidden section at the start of each >>> partition) has been taken over by a Linux loading program >>> written on to it, in place of the Windows boot-sector >>> loading "program" which searches for NTLDR on C:\ >> >>> The only thing I can then advise is to again, start up >>> the PC with the bootable USB drive, then type *both* >>> commands - one after another - without [re]booting >>> in-between. >> >>> FIXMBR C: >>> FIXBOOT C: >> >>> ...then reboot. This has worked for me in the past. >>> And, if still no joy, reverse the order of the commands. >> >>> I do feel quite confident that we will get there in the >>> end... >> >>> == >> >>> Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) >> >> Tim - >> >> Many thanks for your patience and perservance on this >> problem. >> >> I am away from my Netbook, visiting family in South >> Carolina for a few days, but will follow your instructins >> when I return home, early next week. >> >> I'll report on the results. >> >> Carl. > > Hi Tim - > > Back home. Started the netbook with the Windows Recovery > flash drive. > > At the prompt > typed FIXMBR C; and hit Enter > No text appeared, it simply brought me back to the prompt > > and I > entered FIXBOOT C: > It returned, roughly; > Target partition is C: > Sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition? > Entered Y > It returned, File system is NTFS, FIXBOOT writing a new > bootsector, > then, Successfully written. > > At the prompt, I typed Exit and the netbook restarted and > since the > flash drive was still in, it booted up from it. > > I shut down by holding down the on/off button and when it > restarted, I > was back to > RUB loading. > error: no such partition > grub rescue> > > I then reversed the order of the commands: FIXBOOT C > first, FIXMBR > second. > Again, FIXBOOT successfully wrote a new bootsector and > FIXMBR did not > return any message. > Typed EXIT, held down the f2 key, reordered the boot order > putting the > Samsung IDE HDD first, and exited saving that configuration. > Again got > GRUB loading. > error: no such partition > grub rescue> > > > I wrote in this much detail as the thought occurred that > perhaps I was > doing something wrong AFTER running the FIXMBR and FIXBOOT > commands. > > Am I? > > As usual, many thanks. > > Carl
From: Tim Meddick on 28 Apr 2010 16:55
Twayne, The OP has a NetBook - no cd\dvd drive - no floppy. (or I would have suggested using a Bart's PE cd....) He has gone to some trouble to get Recovery Console on a USB drive and can boot and load RC from that. I would have thought - and here's the problem - that the RC command - FIXMBR - should have over-written, and got rid of, the <grub> loader.... But it refuses to budge! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:O61$rcv5KHA.3880(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > < clipped > > You probably need to be doing those things from a bootable CD....... > > < clipped > |