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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP
Shane:
What you want to do is make a ghost boot disk instead. I never use the ghost gui in Windows, I hate it. Instead I use their dos one (Or Windows PE now) and use it. It does the whole drives, doesnt report drive letters because it is doing the entire dirve, partitions and all :-)
Shane
backtolife:
Thanks Shane. Since I last posted I gave up on Ghost and downloaded HDD Raw Copy Tool from http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
Its in the process of copying the hard drive. I'll let you know when it finishes.
backtolife:
OK, it looks like I now have two identical drives. Booting from either has the same result. In the upper left hand corner appears the word Error!
I'm ready to begin the repair.
Boggin:
--- Quote from: backtolife on July 29, 2014, 08:25:50 am ---OK, it looks like I now have two identical drives. Booting from either has the same result. In the upper left hand corner appears the word Error!
I'm ready to begin the repair.
--- End quote ---
Cloning isn't going to restore the computer - it's just a fall back to retain the status quo should something go wrong during the clean install.
I had intended to offer my condolences on the death of your friend but was focusing on the problem at hand - but can you check with your friend's widow to see if your friend had created any system images as if/when the clean install is successful, you will be able to restore with that and as you have two HDDs, the original will always have the original personal files on.
I think you should still see if you can reincarnate the original HDD with either the Kaspersky or Hirens Boot disks prior to trying the clean install given the problems you've had so far.
Are you able to be selective in what you can restore from that cloning program or is it like Windows system image where it is all or nothing ?
Shane:
--- Quote ---Cloning isn't going to restore the computer - it's just a fall back to retain the status quo should something go wrong during the clean install.
--- End quote ---
Yes, he knows that. Thats why I had him do the clone so that we wouldn't touch the old drive and would try to get the system up and running on the clone instead. That way we hit any snag we still have the old drive with the data as it is.
OK now that you have the new cloned drive in the system, is there any way for you to take a picture of the error you see with your phone and post it?
If the error comes up before you see anything about windows loading then I wonder if it might just be a bad master boot record. If so one quickway to try and fix that is to boot off a normal windows xp cd. When the setup comes up you choose to repair the xp and there it should take you to the recovery console.
Once in the recovery console type in
fixmbr
And have it repair the master boot record, then reboot and see if it helps at all. :wink:
Shane
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