Problems to boot correctly after cloning disk

[Lars]

I have aproblem to boot the machine correctly after booting C-drive to a new
disk. The intention is to replace. I have learned that I did a mistake when
I did
not remove the old disk when rebooting.

I now have to have both disks which are more or less copies in the machine
to
be able to boot.

My boot.ini file looks like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Start"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Madde"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="BOOT D"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

I can only boot from alternative "Start". What do the different boot
alternative mean?

What can I do to put things in order and remove the old disk? Repair from
recovery console?
Clone again? Anything else?

Thanks in advance for all advise!

Lars

 

[Timothy Daniels]

"Lars" skrev:

I have aproblem to boot the machine correctly after booting
C-drive to a new disk. The intention is to replace. I have
learned that I did a mistake when I did not remove the old
disk when rebooting.

I now have to have both disks which are more or less copies
in the machine to be able to boot.

My boot.ini file looks like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Start"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Madde"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="BOOT D"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft

Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

I can only boot from alternative "Start". What do the different boot alternative mean?

What can I do to put things in order and remove the old disk?
Repair from recovery console? Clone again? Anything else?

Thanks in advance for all advise!

Hej.

Until a greater authority answers, here are my thoughts:

You will probably have to clone the original OS again. In what
was probably an effort by Microsoft to discourage people from
making multiple copies of its OSes (NT, Win2K, and WinXP),
the 1st bootup of a "newbie" clone must be done in isolation
from its "parent" or the newbie will set pointers to files in its
"parent" that forever after require the "parent's" presence for
the clone to function. Sometimes it doesn't work that way, but
I don't know the conditions under which it doesn't.

If you want to play around with boot.ini, first be sure which
boot.ini file the startup menu is coming from - the old hard
drive or the new hard drive. You can put in fake entries to
identify which one appears when you boot the PC. The
boot menu that comes up comes from the OS in the "active"
partition of the hard drive at the head of the BIOS's boot
sequence. Since the option called "Start" seems to be the
one that works, the drive with the working OS comes from the
2nd hard drive in the boot sequence, since "rdisk(1)" refers to
the hard drive at relative position 1 in the boot sequence, i.e.
the 2nd hard drive in the boot sequence. If your clone OS
will be in the only hard drive in the eventual system, you should
put that hard drive at the head of the boot sequence and change
"rdisk(1)" to "rdisk(0)". If the 2 hard drives are on the same
IDE cable, you can do this by reversing the Master/Slave
settings of the hard drives - either explicitly via their jumpers,
or implicitly by interchanging their positions on the cable.
Otherwise, you can reverse their positions in the boot sequence
directly via keyboard input to the BIOS. Keep one menu option
just for testing, and call it "rdisk(1)", giving it a menu name of
"2nd HD" or something similar. Then remove the other menu
options since they all refer to partition 1 on the 1st hard drive,
anyway.

If the "Start" option continues to bring up a working OS, try
removing the 2nd HD by unplugging its power cable or its
data cable (or both). If no menu comes up, the hard drive
may lack a Master Boot Record. If you understand how to
run fixmbr, that might work to create a new MBR. Otherwise,
re-clone, telling the imaging utility to put the copy in a primary
partition, to copy over the MBR, and to mark the destination
partition "active". Then start the new OS up for the 1st time in
isolation.

If the new OS works in isolation, you're in luck, and you can
make the boot.ini default option's parameters match the
parameters of the "Start" option, and you can reduce the
timeout value to 0 which launches loading of the default
OS immediately.

Ha det så bra.

*TimDaniels*