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Hi

Dell 620, displays topic title message on boot, has been re-partitioned and then re-imaged

The drive is in full working order and all cables are properly connected

The image is most definitely for the 620 (incase of anyone suggesting)

I can boot into ghost and win98 boot disc's and see both partitions so i know they are right

Problem is when i have ghosted image accross onto C and then re-boot i get this message

Any ideas would be great

Lee H

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dynamik

It sounds like the machine can't find boot information on the drive. Maybe you have a missing or corrupt Master Boot Record. Sometimes, this can fix your problem. What OS are you trying to load?

Lee H

Have already tried it, same thing happened

This is a SATA drive loading XP Pro, it worked fine with W2K until i repartitioned the drive and ghosted XP onto it

dynamik

Do you have the XP installation media? Maybe you will have more luck booting into the recovery console and trying fixmbr. It looks like fdisk /mbr is only supported on DOS 6.22-Windows ME.

Also, check your boot order. Maybe you're getting hung up on something else and it's not even going to the hd.

Lee H

No joy dynamo

Any more ideas?

Lee H

Just re-imaged but this time i slected the whole disk and not the partition, this has worked so i can just resize the partition using partition magic to have 2 partitions.

any ideas why the image would not work when ghosted to a partition as opose to entire disk

Lee H

Ahriakin

Choosing the disk operation restores the image's boot configuration/MBR etc. Partition does not.

dynamik

Ahriakin wrote:

Choosing the disk operation restores the image's boot configuration/MBR etc. Partition does not.

^Bingo