Partinfo - results for HDD1:

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I condider myself a power user, I know HTML, but I cant insert yet a simple image !!

this does not work:
Code:

[img]C:\partinfo.gif[/img]
[img]C://partinfo.gif[/img] 

with or without quotas

can i attach files?

in the help i did not find anything. Amazing userfriendliness...

manman

You have to have your images hosted online and use that online location to pull in the image with this forum's software.

Several folks have given *thumbs up* to the

Photobucket

that apparently will host your images for free.

Actually, from your postings above, it *does* appear that you have a partition problem--at least as posted--I'll explain more below.

Here's the *boot.ini* you claim is present on your HDD after restoring the image:

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But both MBRWizard and PartInfo say your primary boot partition is #1, and not #3!  The ARC path in *boot.ini* does not use the alphabetical order of drive letter assignments to determine the boot partition--it uses the order as specified in the MBR partition table.

You never mentioned in your reports of your system that the drive letters are not listed in the order of the physical layout of your HDD partitions.

But, I know for a fact, that Ghost 2003 may edit the *boot.ini* (in the background--and in my opinion *behind my back*!--I can find nowhere in the documentation that this happens--but I have documented it), and Ghost 2003 may adjust the *partition(x)* to be what it needs to be--and it works okay--unless your partition table (like mine) is not in sequential order--then Ghost 2003 can really mess things up!

You need to run this program,

TeraByte Unlimited Freeware--look for

EditBINI

, from DOS and confirm what the *boot.ini* file says.

Based on your posts, it should be *partition(1)*--so, if Ghost 2003 did not change it behind your back (or did not change it correctly), you will need to adjust that--the above program should allow you to edit the *boot.ini*.

But, as mentioned in my reply #12 above, I believe you will also have to deal with drive letters that have been re-assigned.

Report back with the results.

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NightOwl, I hope I am not adding more confusion here, but I think we're still not in possession of all the pertinent facts.

I think you are not making the correct distinction between the BOOT partition and the OPERATING SYSTEM partition. My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the active boot partition is the one that contains:
ntldr
ntdetec.com
boot.ini
This is the one that the hardware starts the boot process from.

Normally the Operating System (XP) is also on that same partition, but (as long as those 3 files are on the active one) ! So, you can have the primary boot partition as the first one (C in most cases) and XP on E or F or G (on the same drive).

boot.ini (regardless of which partition it is read from initially) tells the operating system where to CONTINUE from that point forward.

NightOwl wrote on Jul 25^th, 2006 at 9:55am:


C was primary, and the other were extended (logical) partitions.

OK, I have tried with savepart. I have modified the offset written in the Windows registry, for the restored partition. I have 2 images of the same G:, so I have tried with each:
1. with an older partition (slightly different hardware configuration) - I did not work
2. With a newer partition (19 iul 2006) (practically the same hardware config.) - and.... IT WORKED.


I think this was the cause. But I could be wrong. If you think so, please tell me.

Thank you very much for all your posts. All your opinions were great for me.

Ghost4me

Hmmmm....I stand corrected--you are right--the *boot.ini* may need to point to *partition(3)*--which is the second logical partition in the extended partition based on the *partinfo* information and using the information on how to *count*  and enumerate the partition number for the *partition(x)* in *boot.ini* explained here (

Editing the Boot.ini file using BTini

), that would make it *partition(3)*.

I was focused on *primary* partitions--my bad!

So, probably only needs to address the drive letter assignments using

SavePart--aka Partition Saving

.

yes, it show the new offset partition id and you just have to tell it to make that drive letter "G" - you also point to the windows partition, so the program could ghange Windows registry. It works simple. You have nothing to manually calculate. Details:

http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_11

Looking more closely at the SavePart information, it appears it does more than just fix the partition boot record (fixboot command).  It looks like it also does an offline registry edit of XP, similar to what I mentioned in reply #9 previously.