NightOwl wrote on Nov 27th, 2010 at 12:05am:@
xcuriousQuestions? Comments?
Hi again.
I have been pretty busy working with this problem, but time is a limiting factor.
I got a bit confused after your first suggestion about editing boot sector.
Now I have done:
1. Ghost restored from when this Asus 1000H was new taken after next to nothing had been done with it. The whole Disk and not only C. (2 years ago).
One exception: The recovery partition following the machine was already removed by me.
2. From gdisk I removed the EFI partiton as I do not use Boot Booster.
3. When restoring this Ghost image I made C approx 16 GB as it has been.
4. The rest of the disk was left unallocated, approx 135 GB.
5. I created a new D as a primary partition from all the free space.
6. I restored my C from a new Ghost-image of C after recovering from the shock
of seeing my original Asus 1000h without mouse, external display and a desktop with
much unfamiliar stuff.
7. Now I have this according to gdisk32:
Microsoft Windows XP [Versjon 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corporation
C:>gdisk32 1 /status
Disk Partitions Cylinders Heads Sectors Mbytes Model
1 2 19457 255 63 152627.8
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRIMARY 16002.2 NTFS/HPFS 10%
D: 2 PRIMARY 136623.1 NTFS/HPFS 90%
8. Partinfo shows:
Microsoft Windows XP [Versjon 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corporation
PARTINFW 1.11
Copyright (c) 1996-2008 TeraByte, Inc. All rights reserved.
Run date: 11/27/2010 14:06
====================================================================
MBR Partition Information (HD0 - 0x47EE47ED)
(CHS: 1023/254/63) (WCHS: 19457/255/63)
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
| 0: | 80 | 0 1 1 | 7 | 1023 254 63 | 63 | 32772537 |
| 1: | 0 | 1023 254 63 | 7 | 1023 254 63 | 32772600 | 279804105 |
| 2: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3: | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 | 0 |
+====+====+=============+====+=============+===========+===========+
BOOT SECTOR INFORMATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 63 Total Sectors: 32772537 ID: 0x1
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 255
Hidden Secs: 63
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x01F411B8
MFT LCN: 0x0C0000
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x010
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN:
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
File System ID: 0x7 LBA: 32772600 Total Sectors: 279804105 ID: 0x2
Jump: EB 52 90
OEM Name: NTFS
Bytes Per Sec: 512
Sec Per Clust: 8
Res Sectors: 0
Zero 1: 0x0
Zero 2: 0x0
NA 1: 0x0
Media: 0xF8
Zero 3: 0x0
Sec Per Track: 63
Heads: 255
Hidden Secs: 32772600
NA 2: 0x0
NA 3: 0x800080
Total Sectors: 0x010AD78C8
MFT LCN: 0x0C0000
MFT Mirr LCN: 0x010AD78C
Clust Per FRS: 0xF6
Clust Per IBlock: 0x1
Volume SN:
Checksum: 0x0
Boot Flag: 0xAA55
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Could I please get comments on this.