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Reply #30 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 2:51pm

Brian,

OK, XP is working as I type this, Win7 is not.
I printed out the following from the link

"How to use the edit features of Bootit NG"

I thought I followed each step correctly.
The part where it says Repeat steps 3-6 may be were I went wrong as I didn't quite understand what they wanted.
Win7 get as far as the 4 colors come together, then they pules in brightness and it just hangs and I have to do a hard boot to get out.

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Reply #31 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 3:19pm

Bill,

That's not a BCD issue. It sounds like a driver issue but I can't give you a solution.

Let's see what we can do with your Win7 on the eSATA HD. Maybe we can copy it. Connect your eSATA HD and boot into BING. In Partition Work, does the HD appear as HD 1? Is your Win7 partition showing in the Partitions area??

Don't try and boot an OS yet with the eSATA HD attached.

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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #32 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 3:31pm Just a question. Don't do this. Is it possible to remove the eSATA HD from its enclosure and install it internally as a second HD? Edit.... When you first tried to boot Win7 with BING did it behave as it's doing now? Did it get to the 4 lights?
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Reply #33 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 3:57pm

Brian wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 3:31pm:

Just a question. Don't do this. Is it possible to remove the eSATA HD from its enclosure and install it internally as a second HD?

Edit.... When you first tried to boot Win7 with BING did it behave as it's doing now? Did it get to the 4 lights?

Brian,

No, I haven't tried to boot to Win7 with BING, should we try that?
The hard drive in question, the one with the clone is currently in a box.
I've already seen this behavior with Win7 after I tried to restore win7 on the old (and gone) dual boot drive.
I have one older recovery point of Win7 that I experimented on. I took this just after I installed Ghost 15. I was able restore this point.
But, at this time I didn't have Photo Shop CS5 installed, so this recovery point is useless to me.
Could it be possible that the recovery point made from the clone is some how corrupt?
Let me know if/how we can proceed?

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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #34 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:03pm Bill, Try this first. Let's see what we can do with your Win7 on the eSATA HD. Maybe we can copy it. Connect your eSATA HD and boot into BING. In Partition Work, does the HD appear as HD 1? Is your Win7 partition showing in the Partitions area?? Just to confirm. It connects to your computer via eSATA, not USB?
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Reply #35 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:17pm

Brian wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:03pm:

Bill,

Try this first. Let's see what we can do with your Win7 on the eSATA HD. Maybe we can copy it. Connect your eSATA HD and boot into BING. In Partition Work, does the HD appear as HD 1? Is your Win7 partition showing in the Partitions area??

Just to confirm. It connects to your computer via eSATA, not USB?

Brian,

Just to be clear, are talking about the Clone of Win7?
Connect this with eSATA port.
OK, this makes me a bit nervous, but you say were booting to BING only.
Let me know.

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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #36 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:22pm Bill, that's correct. The clone on the eSATA HD. I want to know if it is seen in BING. Stop at this point. Later we'll try and boot it and if that is successful we'll clone it to your 1 TB HD.
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Reply #37 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:35pm

Brian wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:22pm:

Bill, that's correct. The clone on the eSATA HD. I want to know if it is seen in BING. Stop at this point.

Later we'll try and boot it and if that is successful we'll clone it to your 1 TB HD.

Brian,

I did as you said, in partitions works, drive 3 which is the ESATA port, shows up, 152626 MB HPFS/NTFS

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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #38 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 5:30pm Bill, Drive 3? Do you mean HD 2? Or HD 3? HD 0 is your 1 TB HD. What is HD 1? etc
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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #39 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 6:17pm Brian, Yes, the list on the left, the top is HD0 When clicked on HD3 that is where I saw the partition, that would also coincide with eSATA drive that is also on port 3 on the MB. Bill.
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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #40 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 6:20pm What is in HD 1 and HD 2 in BING?
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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #41 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 6:35pm Brian, I forgot that I have two other drives, with the first one having 3 partitions (data drive) .This is HD1 The other drive is a scratch drive for Photo Shop, that is DH2. The last is the eSATA HD3 125626 mb, MBR entry 0 Bill.
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Reply #42 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 6:43pm

That gave me a good laugh as I thought you only had HD 0. No problems.

Click Boot Edit, Add.
On the left side of the Window click the drop down arrow to select HD 3.
In the Boot field click the drop down arrow and choose the partition (should be MBR Entry 0).
In the Identity field type eSATA
Put a tick in the first Swap (not the Swap in the One Time Option area)
On the right hand side of the window, in HD 0, click Hide next to WinXP and Win7. (two Hides)
Click OK. OK.

Click Resume.
Select eSATA and click Boot.

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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #43 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 7:04pm Brian, OK, I'll give that a try tomorrow afternoon, and get back to you. Thanks, Bill.
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	Re: Big problem, advice needed. Reply #44 - Jul 24^th, 2010 at 7:07pm When you last booted that HD, was it internal? Or external? And Win7 booted normally?
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