How to Avoid NTLDR Problems

shieber · Aug 21, 2007

Sometimes if I swicthc any drives around, I have to go into the BIOS and reset which drives are used as boot drives (, e.g., A; then CD then a harddisk). Once the BIOS tries to boot off the right harddrive, a rstored image boots up fine.

MudCrab said:

jonyjoe81,

According to your posts, 99% of all TI problems are related to drive letter changes. I don't believe this. I have have done many restores and have never had a drive letter change problem.

Checking the boot.ini files is very easy and only takes a few seconds. I would always try that first before paragon justboot corrector.

Also, your procedure of restoring an image to a partition at least 1GB larger does not make any sense. What difference does the size make? I have restored to the same partition many times without problems (as I think have most users of TI). I have also restored to different sized partitions (larger and smaller), also without problems. Most people will not have unallocated space on their hard drives to allow a 1GB increase in the partition. Most people have no choice but to restore to the original partition (unless upgrading to a larger hard drive). And where do you come up with the magic "1GB" value? You make it sound like it's a given that restoring to the same partition will cause a drive letter change. I know that's not the case.

As for assigning drive letters when you restore the partition, as far as I know, TI only asks this if you're running the Windows version. Running TI from the CD in FULL or SAFE mode does not assign any drive letters. If someone is starting the restore process of the C: Windows partition in Windows then TI is going to reboot and do the restoration. The drive should be the C: drive as that is what it was when it was imaged.
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MudCrab · Aug 21, 2007

shieber said:

Sometimes if I switch any drives around, I have to go into the BIOS and reset which drives are used as boot drives (, e.g., A; then CD then a harddisk). Once the BIOS tries to boot off the right harddrive, a rstored image boots up fine.
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This happens almost every time on one of my computers. Any time a new bootable device is plugged in it usually defaults to that device. However, when the device is removed, the previous setup is not always restored and when I go look in the BIOS it has hard drive 3 or 5 set to boot (which are data drives) instead of the Windows drive. I've just gotten into the habit of checking the BIOS boot settings after every change to make sure they're correct.

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