CF and MBR

[Janiek Buysrogge]

Hello,

Every once in a while when I boot a cloned CF-image, it doesn't boot,
it just sits at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..."

I ran chkdsk and the SanDisk removable/fixed tool several times, and
also verified with diskpart if the boot partition was active. However,
this doesn't solve the boot problem. I think it has something to do
with the MBR being corrupted. Are there any tools besides the Windows
XP Recovery Console, that I can use the rewrite the MBR. In the past I
first formatted the CF as FAT, then copied fdisk to the CF and execute
fdisk /mbr there. Once it booted DOS, I reformatted to NTFS and copied
the cloned image. As you can see this is a length operation and
implies many write operations, so I'm looking for a better method.

Any advice is welcome,

Best regards,

JB

 

[Janiek Buysrogge]

Booyaaah ! Found an XP cd somewhere in my digital jungle,
booted into Recovery Console, executed fixmbr \Device\Harddisk0,
confirmed the warning and now it boots.