re: WinXP & Drive Image 2002
Monday, November 14, 2005 at 10:43 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David Deratany
(170 messages posted)
I recently tried to install DI 2002 to XP. It wouldn't allow it. You have to use
DI 7, which, of course, won't install on 98. I was able, however, to restore an
image made with DI 7 from WIN 98, and vice versa. Fortunately, both programs came
together at one price.
On Friday, May 28, 2004 at 4:12 am, Graham wrote:
>Had this problem and fixed it.
>
>Seems Windows XP drive assignments expect to tie up with some drive identification
>info in the Master Boot Record. So, of course, if you have restored a Drive Image
>partition to a different disk then the disk ID info will not be what is expected
>and although XP knows which partition it is supposed to start booting from it MAY
>get confused when during the boot process it tries to assign drive letters. If it
>cannot or does not assign C: to the required partition it stops.
>
>So if you have a boot disk that enables you to boot to DOS (Win 98 boot disk etc
>would do) then try:
>
>FDISK /MBR
>
>This clears the info that causes the problem but leaves the partition table intact.
>
>It worked for me but note that messing with the MBR can be risky especially if you
>use any dual boot tool that works through the MBR itself.
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