Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

Hello,

Acronis Disk Director will convert a logical partition in an extended
partition into a primary partition and vice-versa, amongst other operations.

I have used it in a situation similar to yours where a disk drive, after
imaging, contained all the disk volumes as logical partitions inside an
extended partition, instead of with a primary partition marked as active
at the beginning of the disk. Acronis Disk Director (not True Image, which
is a separate product) was able to fix it.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky

At 10:00 AM 1/13/2007, you wrote:

>Message: 5
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:14:14 -1000
>From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem
>To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <001b01c736d1$ab8fa0d0$020aa8c0@SIERPINSKI>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> > Have you considered using a program like Acronis Disk Director or
>Symantec
> > (nee PowerQuest) PartitionMagic to convert the logical partitions
>inside
> > of the extended partition into primary partitions (or as they are set
>up
> > originally on the previous hard disk drive) and then setting the
>"correct"
> > partition as "active"?"
>
>On the original drive they are not in an extended partition, just 3
>separate primary partitions, one active. I can manually reproduce this
>setup with Partition Manager (which has at least the functionality of
>Partition Magic) by just copying the partitions over one by one, but I'm
>still hoping for the no-babysit solution.
>
> > You may (or may not) still have to boot the computer from a Windows
>2000
> > Professional installation disc, start the Recovery Console and use the
> > FIXMBR and FIXBOOT commands to properly configure the master boot
>record
> > and boot sector.
>
>This didn't work. The console BSODs, complaining about the drive
>structure.
>
>I will try Acronis tonight; if that doesn't work, I'll have to try
>something more drastic, like a backup/restore.
>
>David

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Received on Mon Jan 15 18:58:03 2007