| newbie 2005-12-14, 8:46 pm |
| YES!!! I fixed the problem by editing the boot.ini file.
With the drive in question set up as the slave, I edited it's boot.ini file
the easy way, that is, I turned off "hide protected operating system files"
in the "Folder options-> view" control panel, found the boot.ini file in the
root directory, made it not read-only, and changed the partition number from
2 to 1 in two places. Then shut down, moved the drive to the "master"
connector on the cable and booted normally.
The only thing is - WHY did I have to do that in the first place? Is it
possible that my original hard drive had a hidden partition, making the
partition with windows, etc it in #2 ?
I am going to do a fresh archive of the new drive. If I ever have to
restore this one, I will see if I run into the same problem. Hopefully that
won't be for a while...
"newbie" <nomail@for.me> wrote in message
news:lq1of.15439$O05.11252@fe09.lga...
> I am attempting to restore a hard drive from an archive of a dead one,
which
> was a boot disk containing windows plus tons of files. I believe that the
> archived partition was marked as "primary and active" as I see "flags"
that
> list "PRI, ACT".
> I was able to restore the contents of the archive onto a new drive,
however
> it will not boot the PC. I get the "Windows Could Not Start Because of a
> Computer Disk hardware Configuration Problem" message. I believe that the
> problem stems from not being able to set the new partition as "primary AND
> active" with acronis. I must choose "active" only, because "primary" is
> greyed-out, and could not use both, as the old partition seems to have
been.
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> A separate issue that may not matter:
> My system as it stands now has two drives: a drive to boot from that
> includes the archive, and a new one to burn the archive to. I find that I
> was only able to burn the archive when I boot to the internal drive and
run
> acronis
> from there. When I boot from the acronis boot CD, everything seems the
same
> as I work through the dialogs, until I push the last button and nothing
> happens - the archive does not get restored to the drive, and the time
> remaining counter goes up, to like 12 hours, and stays there.
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