Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

> There is a free program to fix that, I can't remember the name but it is
> bootfix or something like that, you can find it with a Google search. It
> boots off a floppy.

I tried this one yesterday:
http://www.tinyempire.com/shortnotes/files/ntldr_missing.htm It didn't
help, but I'll look to see what else is out there.

> Another way to do this is to make a full backup of your drive...and
restore the backup.

Yes, that is certainly another option, but frankly it irritates me that none
of the 4 different disk cloning programs I have on the machine will work as
advertised. Why the heck else did I spend good money on these programs?
(OK, I only actually had to pay for one of them, but the principle still
applies.)

> I have no idea why the other programs would change the partition
> structure, but I'd recommend trying another program. Acronis True Image
> has worked perfectly for me

Ontrack and Paragon (and IBM Disk Manager 2000) have always worked perfectly
for me before, I don't know if I feel like downloading yet another program
like this.

BTW, the drive itself is working fine, I can see everything by booting a
live Linux distro. It is also eerily quiet, both compared to the clunker
that came with the machine, and compared to the newer Hitachi drives I've
recently put in other machines. Not the fastest thing around, but $70 for
100g is pretty cheap.

David

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Received on Fri Jan 12 15:54:26 2007