Cloning Boot Drive Question

[Henry LaMuth]

When the boot drive...C:...is cloned successfully, what name or drive
letter should be assigned, if any, to the cloned drive during cloning?

Under XPHomeSP1, how does XP see the new drive when it is installed as
the new master boot? I understood that C: is automatically assigned so
that the tree structure would remain the same. In my case, I get a
reboot message just after the drives are detected...as if either
something is wrong or some switch was not set or the new boot drive
cannot actually be seen.

I must be missing something about the way XP..or any OS...sees the
boot drive.

Thanks for the help.

Henry LaMuth

 

[jdk]

When the boot drive...C:...is cloned successfully, what name or drive
letter should be assigned, if any, to the cloned drive during cloning?

Under XPHomeSP1, how does XP see the new drive when it is installed as
the new master boot? I understood that C: is automatically assigned so
that the tree structure would remain the same. In my case, I get a
reboot message just after the drives are detected...as if either
something is wrong or some switch was not set or the new boot drive
cannot actually be seen.

I must be missing something about the way XP..or any OS...sees the
boot drive.

Thanks for the help.

Henry LaMuth

A reboot message from what, XP or the BIOS? Be explicit. Did you jumper
and hook up the old drive as a slave? If they are both masters then XP
(and eventually its apps) would have a problem with re-arranged drive
letters. XP sees drives and partitions in the same way as legacy DOS at
boot time. I think, but I'm not sure, you have already cloned the old
drive to the new? If so try removing the old drive and be sure to set
the system partition on the new drive (where boot.ini is) as the active
partition as well as having your cloning utility copy the MBR to rule
out hardware, cableing and jumper problems. Get the new drive running by
itself and then deal with the old one.

John

 

[Henry LaMuth]

Fat chance you will see this reply, but I couldn't help myself. The
cloning finally worked for no reason the software manufacturer could
help me with. Likely a poorly documented requriement to have NetFrame
installed for the cloning program to run under XP.

As for the reboot message, how the hell would I know where it came
from? It is a simple dos message to reboot just after the screen
showing that memory and drives were detected...maybe bios, likely
bios. If it had gotten to loading windows, I would have said so.

Your question should have been: how experienced are you with PC's? And
from there go on to ask quesitons that someone at that level could
answer. Answer, I know jumpers, I build PCs, I manage cloning of
thousands of PCs and this problem should not have occurred if the
software product was properly documented.

H