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doctorgonzo · 09-22-2004, 10:03 AM

Type "fixboot" at the recovery console (where you did the "fixmbr" command).

If that doesn't work, try copying the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files from the Windows CD (in the i386 directory) to the C: drive.

No, you're not the first person to want to do this, you just did it the "wrong" way. As kilgoretrout pointed out, if you copy partition by partition, you will miss the MBR. If instead you chose to clone the entire disk, Ghost would have cloned everything, including the MBR. That is the correct way to copy the entire contents of a drive to a new drive.

09-22-2004, 10:03 AM	#10
doctorgonzo Professional gadfly Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 6,364	Type "fixboot" at the recovery console (where you did the "fixmbr" command). If that doesn't work, try copying the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files from the Windows CD (in the i386 directory) to the C: drive. No, you're not the first person to want to do this, you just did it the "wrong" way. As kilgoretrout pointed out, if you copy partition by partition, you will miss the MBR. If instead you chose to clone the entire disk, Ghost would have cloned everything, including the MBR. That is the correct way to copy the entire contents of a drive to a new drive.