Hi All,
I made a mega stupid mistake recently and now get all sorts of problems booting into my WinXP system
basically I had a working but a bit screwy WinXP system on one partition taking up half of a drive, I decided to start afresh and installed WinXP in a new partition on the other halp fo the drive and set that up so it worked fine and installed all the programs I use set up all the drivers etc etc etc, when I was happy with it I made an image (Acronis TruImage) of the partition so I never had to go through all that again I could just revert to a working system.
Then I made a fatal error, I trashed the old system to get the space back. What i hadn't realised was that the new WinXP system was set up in a logical drive and wasn't the boot partition, the old system was, so obviously when I restarted I got
'NTLDR is Missing' and whatever i try i get various errors because although the system is fully functional it is not bootable, and the image I have will be the same.
I'm trying to work out what is the best thing to do, I could:
1 ) install a fresh WinXP system and when it is working attampt to copy the entire contents of the image on top of whats there to give me a bootable version of what I had before (not sure this would work and it could be messy)
2 ) extract the image to a fresh primary partition and add whatever is necessary to make it boot (this seems the best plan but I tried this and copied boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM onto the root folder and got the error 'Hal.sys could not be found' on booting, not sure why but perhaps i missed something else that needs to be in the system
3 ) Screw it all and start from scratch again! (please no), it's not a prolem I have all the installation disks and all my data is backed up on a completely separate disk, it's just such a long winded procedure to get it working how I want
Any Ideas?
I prefer option 2 but not sure how to go about it properlyi followed a knowledgebase article about making a boot disk for WinXP and copied the contents to the root of the drive but i think there is probable more to do
Any help gratefully recieved
Webly
I made a mega stupid mistake recently and now get all sorts of problems booting into my WinXP system
basically I had a working but a bit screwy WinXP system on one partition taking up half of a drive, I decided to start afresh and installed WinXP in a new partition on the other halp fo the drive and set that up so it worked fine and installed all the programs I use set up all the drivers etc etc etc, when I was happy with it I made an image (Acronis TruImage) of the partition so I never had to go through all that again I could just revert to a working system.
Then I made a fatal error, I trashed the old system to get the space back. What i hadn't realised was that the new WinXP system was set up in a logical drive and wasn't the boot partition, the old system was, so obviously when I restarted I got
'NTLDR is Missing' and whatever i try i get various errors because although the system is fully functional it is not bootable, and the image I have will be the same.
I'm trying to work out what is the best thing to do, I could:
1 ) install a fresh WinXP system and when it is working attampt to copy the entire contents of the image on top of whats there to give me a bootable version of what I had before (not sure this would work and it could be messy)
2 ) extract the image to a fresh primary partition and add whatever is necessary to make it boot (this seems the best plan but I tried this and copied boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM onto the root folder and got the error 'Hal.sys could not be found' on booting, not sure why but perhaps i missed something else that needs to be in the system
3 ) Screw it all and start from scratch again! (please no), it's not a prolem I have all the installation disks and all my data is backed up on a completely separate disk, it's just such a long winded procedure to get it working how I want
Any Ideas?
I prefer option 2 but not sure how to go about it properlyi followed a knowledgebase article about making a boot disk for WinXP and copied the contents to the root of the drive but i think there is probable more to do
Any help gratefully recieved
Webly
