XP and Drive Image

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dave

Greetings--

I'm setting up a brand new Toshiba laptop running XP/SP2, and installed
Drive Image 2002, which I've used before, to provide for backup images.
It all seemed to work normally, but I was unable to create a new
partition as I wanted due to a Toshiba requirement, and a limitation of
Drive Image.

So I loaded up an older version of Partition Commander that I had to
try to do the partitioning correctly. It failed, with XP telling me the
application was trying to modify the disk directly, which XP wouldn't
allow. Making that attempt also appeared to break the master boot
record, as attemting to boot resulted in the 2 characters "|." on the
screen, after which the computer froze. To fix this I then brought up
the recovery console from an XP install disk, and ran "fixmbr", after
which I could boot normally.

Unfortunately, now when I run Drive Image it is unable to set up its
rebooting process at all, giving me the "|." instead... I then have to
reload the MBR.

Any thoughts on what might have happened, and/or how/what to fix would
be much appreciated. Thanks.
 
Makes sense the DI2002 (6.0) couldn't modify current XP partition and create
space for another partition in an XP environment. That, and any other
partition creation tool. Sounds like partition commander did that, but XP
wouldn't let it use its nonstandard mbr replacement.

Try starting over again, then using a partition tool that runs outside of XP
from boot media. One more up to date is probably appropriate.
 
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