Please help! bootable hard disk

[Tom McCord]

Users,

I am amazed at what has changed with XP over 98. I am
just learning diskpart rather than FDISK. I have no idea
how to make a drive bootable in XP. I used Notron Ghost
to make an image of my old drive and added it to a new,
larger drive. The new drive is not bootable and I can't
figure out how to make it that way. Help!

 

[davetest]

Users,

I am amazed at what has changed with XP over 98. I am
just learning diskpart rather than FDISK. I have no idea
how to make a drive bootable in XP. I used Notron Ghost
to make an image of my old drive and added it to a new,
larger drive. The new drive is not bootable and I can't
figure out how to make it that way. Help!

Try the XP recovery console - fixboot.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;307654

Also, use the windows 98 startup floppy / fdisk to view the
partition properties. It should be active and not hidden.

Dave

 

[Tom McCord]

-----Original Message-----

Try the XP recovery console - fixboot.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN- US;307654

Also, use the windows 98 startup floppy / fdisk to view the
partition properties. It should be active and not hidden.

Dave
.

Dave,

I have no CD. I have an IBM R31 Laptop that came
preloaded. The recovery option is a hidden partition on
the hard drive that will restore the hard disk. I am
upgrading to a larger hard drive and need to make it
bootable before using Norton Ghost to image the old drive
and restore that image to the new drive.

Using DISKPART, I can view the partitions of both drives
by using the "detail partition" command. The old
drive "info" column shows "system" while the new
drive "info" column is blank.

How do I get system to the new drive in this situation?

 

[davetest]

Dave,

I have no CD. I have an IBM R31 Laptop that came
preloaded. The recovery option is a hidden partition on
the hard drive that will restore the hard disk. I am
upgrading to a larger hard drive and need to make it
bootable before using Norton Ghost to image the old drive
and restore that image to the new drive.

Using DISKPART, I can view the partitions of both drives
by using the "detail partition" command. The old
drive "info" column shows "system" while the new
drive "info" column is blank.

How do I get system to the new drive in this situation?

Tom, not sure I understand. You have your original disk
with the restore partition. You use it to recreate XP on the original
disk. It should now be back to the factory settings.
Then use ghost to copy the old to the new.
The 'new" should inherit the correct settings.
Take the old out, put the new in
and use fdisk from windows 98 to set it active, if not
already.
You can get this bootdisk from
www.bootdisk.com.
Dave

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am amazed at what has changed with XP over 98. I am
just learning diskpart rather than FDISK. I have no idea
how to make a drive bootable in XP.

From a recovery console use
diskpart
list partitions
to find the number n of the one you want to make active
select partition n
active
exit

BTW - apart from the system's own partition (which you normally set up
as part of installing the system anyway) I suggest you use Control Panel
- Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk Management and look
lower right for the graphic of the drive. In that you can r-click in
Unallocated space, or Free space to make a partition or volume, or in an
existing partition to reformat or delete it - or to change drive letters
of a partition or CD/DVD etc (apart from the system's partition)