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William B. Lurie
I'm starting a new thread because the earlier problem
has changed. I have a newly formatted Slave drive, onto
which I have *copied* my Master drive using Partition
Magic 8 to copy it. This is not a Drive Image. I don't
want an 'image' that I can use to recreate the original.
I want an *exact copy* of the original, a clone which I can
simply substitute for the original when the Master goes bad.
(Please note that distinction, Michael).
When I reboot, I am able to boot to either drive by changing
target from HDD0 to HDD1 in the BIOS, and software on each
drive is functioning when I boot to it. My next step will be
to try to run the *exact copy* alone on the system, after
I jumper it as the 'Master or single'. When I did all these
steps before, it booted part way into XP, past the black
logo screen, hanging on the first blue XP logo screen, and I
could find no way to do a repair to make it boot further.
That's why I reformatted and copied the drive again, and
tomorrow I will try that next step.
Perhaps somebody who has 'been there, done that' can tell
me that it should work, or, if not, why not.
William B. Lurie
has changed. I have a newly formatted Slave drive, onto
which I have *copied* my Master drive using Partition
Magic 8 to copy it. This is not a Drive Image. I don't
want an 'image' that I can use to recreate the original.
I want an *exact copy* of the original, a clone which I can
simply substitute for the original when the Master goes bad.
(Please note that distinction, Michael).
When I reboot, I am able to boot to either drive by changing
target from HDD0 to HDD1 in the BIOS, and software on each
drive is functioning when I boot to it. My next step will be
to try to run the *exact copy* alone on the system, after
I jumper it as the 'Master or single'. When I did all these
steps before, it booted part way into XP, past the black
logo screen, hanging on the first blue XP logo screen, and I
could find no way to do a repair to make it boot further.
That's why I reformatted and copied the drive again, and
tomorrow I will try that next step.
Perhaps somebody who has 'been there, done that' can tell
me that it should work, or, if not, why not.
William B. Lurie