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Thread ID: 32077 2003-04-08 08:59:00 Dialed in - BUT cant SURF Prod (3561) Press F1
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134376 2003-05-19 06:53:00 You cannot successfully just "copy" the OS from one drive to another and then boot successfully.

You have to "image" the old drive using DriveImage or Ghost or similar.

Realistically it shouldn't be able to run at all!!
godfather (25)
134377 2003-05-19 06:54:00 It still sounds like the video drivers to me. Start in safe mode and delete your display adapter in hardware manager, if more than one adapter listed, delete all. Restart PC and supply driver if requested. Then try changing resolution. Pheonix (280)
134378 2003-05-19 08:27:00 Godfather - strange but true - all I did was copy one drives contents to the other and she worked - Microsoft moves in mysterious ways! Prod (3561)
134379 2003-05-19 12:22:00 Pheonix - you little ripper - you were spot on about the video drivers. I did exactly as you said and now have full control over monitor.
Thanks for the great advice.
Prod (3561)
134380 2003-05-19 12:31:00 I'm not sure why this would have worked godfather, but I copied C: to D: (clean drive) using Windows Explorer to copy all files and subdirectories. Only file I couldn't copy was the Swapfile, win386.swp.

Then I took C: out and switched it with D:, it wouldn't boot, I booted from a floppy disk, fdisk and made the C: (was D:) the active drive, it now boots properly.

It still ran fine and I just accepted that it works.
Kame (312)
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