I’ve been following this thread with interest and do get the feeling that it is Wayne. There is no denying he is a coding genius and has produced...
If the drive boots ok on its own with no errors then it is not an MBR issue and unlikely to be any boot files problem. The favourite has to be the...
Thanks MudCrab, just realised I forgot to come back and thank you for your help. I did quite a bit of research and searching and it does look like...
Thanks Paul, I had seen that thread you just mentioned and it was the one that put me onto the bootwiz.oss file and how to edit it. Had a few...
Thanks for the links k0lo, I had browsed the forum but I obviously missed both of those threads. Something for me to be getting on with for now....
Hi folks……anyone know how to get OS Selector to add an independent Windows install on a logical partition to the bootmenu? (That’s a Windows with...
Did you install any Norton products in XP that might have installed GoBack? What make of computer is it? Some manufacturers’ recovery systems use...
Hi MudCrab, I was asking myself the same question all through my writing of the article. Seems premature of them to make the new partitions the...
Your page MudCrab. http://www.multibooters.co.uk/partitions.html
I assume it won’t run inside Vista but it can be used from a BartPE CD. Like I said it’s been some months since I tested it and I wasn’t aware of...
Sorry but I haven’t tested any Vista compatible cloners yet. It’s on my to do list and I hope to get to it quite shortly, but as yet I cannot...
With the procedure you describe and if nothing has changed since your successful drive copies (you’ve not reinstalled or repaired Vista, or...
Hi Mystiky – I’ve answered in your thread. To add to what I said above. Seems the Vista partition ending sector is not absolutely fixed on...
If you boot the clone with the source drive connected up then it will have its disk signature changed, which will give you the winload.exe error...
Well I’ve ran dozens of tests with several different drive sizes on a couple of machines and the offset and ending sector numbers vary. I can’t...
Any Vista created partition will have an offset that is not on a cyl boundary, whether that offset is larger or smaller will depend on the...
Ran a few tests MudCrab and can see what’s going on, but why it still not quite clear. It is only the first primary partition that has its offset...
Cheers guys, it was a bit of a project that I never really finished to my satisfaction. Life got in the way. There were a couple of other pages...
MudCrab….Your sector readouts are curious and I’ll have to do some testing on this, but unfortunately I don’t have the time at the moment. I’ve...
It’s only ever the first partition on a drive that Vista will change the traditional starting sector. It’s all to do with future large-sector hard...
If you are only cloning single partitions as opposed to an entire drive then you will not be transferring the Disk Signature to the new drive –...
It does not have to be the same size hard drive Tatou - you can resize partitions just as long as you don’t change the starting sector of the...
It’s probably resizing the partitions that is causing your problem. The bootmgr uses the Vista partition’s starting sector on the hard drive to...
John, the thought comes to mind that maybe you are using translation software to allow your motherboard to see the full size of your hard drives....
Well I’m sorry John but I’m at a loss. Really apologize for causing you more hassle. I’ve personally used OSL on many machines and most of my...
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