Thread: Problem getting drive bootable

DManzaluni wrote Rod Speed wrote DManzaluni wrote Thanks again for that very complete response but I am back at square one again! Why cant you do a clean install of Win2K on the non laptop you used to copy the old drive to the new drive in, with a CD drive in that system ? Or did I get that story wrong, and you only ever copied in the laptop ? At least I now know what to do: Get all the OS install files onto the USB drive and make it bootable...

On Nov 4, 4:05*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote: DManzaluni wrote: Thanks again for that very complete response but I am back at square one again! Why cant you do a clean install of Win2K on the non laptop you used to copy the old drive to the new drive in, with a CD drive in that system ? Or did I get that story wrong, and you only ever copied in the laptop ? At least I now know what to do: Get all the OS install files onto the USB...

DManzaluni wrote: On Oct 22, 4:41?pm, "holarchy" wrote: Arno wrote: DManzaluni wrote: I have a dying drive on an IBM Transnote which has no CD drive (and needless to say I have no restore discs). It still works and Maxtor's quick check tells me that it is OK but it is on the way out DEFINITELY. The quick check does not do a surface scan and can miss things. Hitachi DFT reports excessive disk shock and doesnt seem to...

Arno wrote: DManzaluni wrote: On Oct 22, 4:41?pm, "holarchy" wrote: Arno wrote: DManzaluni wrote: I have a dying drive on an IBM Transnote which has no CD drive (and needless to say I have no restore discs). It still works and Maxtor's quick check tells me that it is OK but it is on the way out DEFINITELY. The quick check does not do a surface scan and can miss things. Hitachi DFT reports excessive disk shock and doesnt...

andy wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:34:42 -0800 (PST), DManzaluni wrote: This is becoming really annoying: I have now used xxclone to clone the drive. I watched after the copying of files was concluded and saw it copying the boot.ini and the MBR and making it bootable. At the end of the process xxclone recommends you to go through the process again in case what you have cloned isnt bootable. So I did this again. But still the drive wont boot. I...

DManzaluni wrote: I have a dying drive on an IBM Transnote which has no CD drive (and needless to say I have no restore discs). It still works and Maxtor's quick check tells me that it is OK but it is on the way out DEFINITELY. Hitachi DFT reports excessive disk shock and doesnt seem to care that the drive still boots into WIndows 2000 and works. Does the Transnote have a USB 2.0 connector, at least? You can get put a second drive into a...

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:34:42 -0800 (PST), DManzaluni wrote: This is becoming really annoying: I have now used xxclone to clone the drive. I watched after the copying of files was concluded and saw it copying the boot.ini and the MBR and making it bootable. At the end of the process xxclone recommends you to go through the process again in case what you have cloned isnt bootable. So I did this again. But still the drive wont boot. I went...

On Nov 2, 7:36*pm, "Rod Speed" wrote: DManzaluni wrote: "something else used in the early boot phase which works well enough when booting the old drive, but which stops it copying to the new drive" * Copying OR re-creating!! Stops it being copied properly. This is exceptionally troubling, as you seem to imply there is no cu Thats overstating it. You should be able to do a clean Win2K install to the new...