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How to recover from aborted HDCLONE 1:1 copy

Post by Muzzo » Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:32 pm

Situation:
HDCLONE 1:1 copy aborted by Power Down before copy completed [OS: Windows XP Professional]. Source HD will not boot without HDCLONE Boot Disk and Destination HD will not boot without Windows XP System Disk.

Cause:
HDCLONE makes changes to the Windows Boot.ini file on Destination HD - these changes are not removed if HDCLONE is aborted by Power Down.

Recover Steps:
1. Remove the source HD make Destination HD the master.
2. Boot using the Windows XP System Disk [Change BIOS if required to boot on CD first]
3. Select the Recovery Option. [Don't try to reinstall, as this will remove data from HD]
4. Part of the XP professional recovery software is a utility called BOOTCFG see link [www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcfg.mspx]
use bootcfg /rebuild or bootcfg /add to add a Windows installation to the boot list.
5. Exit, power down [remove XP system disk]
6. Restart and launch XP from the boot line added in step 5
7. Using Notepad, modify the Boot.ini file to remove the boot lines left by HDCLONE
8. Check you boot.ini changes using MSCONFIG.

Points to note:
Take some time to understand the boot.ini syntax ? don?t forget to copy Boot.ini before you change it.
This recovery will only work if the HDCLONE 1:1 copy has copied the System Partition from Source to Destination before the abort



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