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by niklar

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Hi,
I have a working xp on my computer but the strange thing is that I seem to not have any boot.ini or ntldr. I have used attrib in cmd and also "unhidden" files in normal xp window, without beeing able to find them.
I have had acronis backup and restore installed (now uninstalled) and I have also Vmware server installed (not in use).

When trying to find anything about the subject on internet everybody is telling that it has to be an boot.ini

The reason I want to know is that symantec backup exec cant restore this system to another harddisk as I need to do.

Thanks for any hint
/Nic

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by seanferd

Should be in the root of the boot drive.

But you can't do what you want with a backup program, you need imaging software. Some drive vendors provide cloning tools with the new drive or at their site.

by oh smeg

And ideally not from within Windows. But if all you want to do is clone the Drive Disc Wizard from Seagate should be all you require

http://tinyurl.com/27y63t

Col

by niklar

I'm looking in the root of C: using attrib from a cmd window, shouldn't that work?
Doing the "image" using symantec backup exec system recovery 2010 (desktop edition).
Since I want to move from a segate to a WD I was thinking that only the WD software would work (tried that without success)

by oh smeg

Well maybe it should but Windows being windows it may not. Depends on other factors here, you should look at the File Table on the Boot Drive from a Boot Disc and not from within Windows to begin with. ;)

Symantec Backup I'm not sure about as I have not used it for a long time now and I'm no longer sure how it works. But if you have the Boot Drive on a Partition not an entire HDD the Base Boot Files are on the Root of the HDD that the Primary Boot Drive is not the Root of that Partition. :0

Here it really sounds as if you do not have the Boot Drive Partition on the Primary/Master Drive and that is what is causing the problem here.

Col

by niklar

I had tunnelvision, but with your help I found it on D: (have 3 partitions).
I'm a bit curious how it ended up there as I created the C: partition first and installed xp plus some applications, much later I created D: and E:
Will now inform Symantec support that has been workin on this case (at lest 2 different persons) for 2 weeks.

Thanx

by seanferd

Mark his posts as "Helpful".

I'm sure Symantec will be pleased. :)

by seanferd

I don't deserve one, but thanks anyway. :D

by oh smeg

I'm still laughing from yesterday when I saw the results of your above post. :^0

Col :D

by seanferd

We've been going about it the wrong way all this time. :^0

It's funny all over again, now.

by niklar

Went a bit fast..
so how do I give 2 thumbs to smeg

by niklar

It is indeed helpful to inform that I should give thumbs and also to inform that I given it "wrong".

by oh smeg

Sorry it's not possible here. You can only mark a reply to a Question as Helpful [i]or Unhelpful if I remember correctly.[/i]

Sorry but it's been a while since I've asked a question here and the site has changed a bit. ;)

Col

by seanferd

That's the only way to "Mark as helpful" more than once.

And thank you for considering my suggestion helpful as well. :)

Cheers, and happy computing!

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