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| Thread ID: 47227 | 2004-07-20 03:25:00 | Hard drives Booting | Peter H (220) | Press F1 |
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| 253701 | 2004-07-20 03:25:00 | Have just installed a new HD. First set up as a Slave & partitioned into 3 with Partition Magic. On the first partition I then restored my original C drive from CD's made with Nero HDBackup - have used this many times to "roll back" in the past. Then set the drive as a Master, but it would not boot. Then used plan B and copied the C partition, with PM, to the new drive. Boots fine and all working well. Problem arises when I want to back up. C drive now shows - *:ONE Hidden FAT 32 Primary Boot 2.447.4MB Also C:ONE FAT 32 Primary 2463.1. This is the size of the original partition that I made - whem PM copied it, it created a new partition - the hidden one. Original HD shows C:ONE FAT 32 Primary Boot 2.447.4. When going to back up using Nero, the partition shown in use is not the hidden Pri.Boot, but C:ONE - How do I find out what is the main partition that is being used. Logic would appear to be the Pri.Boot, but gut feeling tells me it is C:ONE. System is W98se Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 253702 | 2004-07-20 03:28:00 | Ugh Don't know where the smilys came from - should be "colon O" Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 253703 | 2004-07-20 03:38:00 | Try FDISK /STATUS . That will show you which partitions are shown as bootable in a safe manner. Just remember that FDISK does all sorts of fatal things without asking when you use it to make changes . :-( Flipping that bit probably won't do any damage, but I suu[ppose you've got that bacjkup if necessary. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 253704 | 2004-07-20 08:51:00 | I don't know why you have 2 primarys if you only have one OS. Make one primary partition and extend 2 sequential. Make an Image of your bootable primary on the od drive and restore it to the new primary partition. Use Norton Ghost or PQ Drive Image to do it with. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 253705 | 2004-07-20 21:37:00 | Thanks to both of you - luckily my son turned up who grew up on DOS commands - got rid of the hidden Pri.boot, made the second Pri the boot one. Would have got there myself using PM, but easier his way. Wished I was more familar with dos Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
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