Windows XP / MCE mbr help

[Louiscar]

Hi

I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows MCE.

I;ve been trying to clone my old drive to upgrade to a larger one however, primarily because Ghost 15 seems to be a monumental pain when making an image of this drive I appear not to have been asked (when making the image) or when restoring it to copy MBR.

The disks are single partitions (ie. no hidden restoration partitions).
So I know the new disk isn't going to boot because there is no MBR. The Toshiba only supplies a restoration disk which will wipe everything. I don't have a MCE disk so my question is this:

Can I use an XP pro cd to just get into the console just to use fixmbr? I don't want to run a repair as I think this should be the only thing I need to fix.

If not is there anyway I can get Ghost to copy the mbr? When making an image it just doesn't ask, everything in this version of Ghost seems to expect to be copying from one disk to another whereas I simply connected my old Tosh drive to my computer, made an image and then connected the new drive to restore it to a larger disk size. No copy mbr was offered.

 

[ViRGE]

Can I use an XP pro cd to just get into the console just to use fixmbr?

That should work. The whole situation is a bit loony, but I can't think of any reason why that would fail in your situation.

 

[Louiscar]

That should work. The whole situation is a bit loony, but I can't think of any reason why that would fail in your situation.

That's good to know if I need it. As it happens, I was so convinced it would not boot that I didn't bother to put the drive into the laptop.

I decided to try it anyway as it needed to be there when I attempt the fix. It booted fine so I was totally wrong in my assumption.

I'm not sure why there was no MBR option given but as I restored to a drive which I had set up as unallocated it may have sorted itself out.

Thanks for your reply .