moved c:, vista won't boot, WINLOAD error?

Nick,

You'll need to download (or find on your system) the necessary drivers for your chipset/controller. You'll need these for Vista and XP (if you want a BartPE CD).

When the drivers are extracted, they should resemble this:


Most times, these can be found on the support download website for your computer model. Otherwise, if you're in contact with support, just ask them where the drivers are so you can download them. If it's an Intel-based board, then you can probably get the drivers directly from Intel.

Regarding the Vista Anytime DVD, does it allow you to press F6 at startup? That is where you would add the drivers. This is the same as XP, except I think Vista will also allow the drivers to be on a USB device instead of only on a floppy.

When using the WinPE CD, it is supposed to allow adding drivers after you're booted. The driver gets added dynamically and does not require a reboot. You still have to have the driver on a USB device or floppy or other media so it can be loaded.

Regarding the 64 to 63 offset change, I would assume that if you restored the C: partition from your backup image that TI would put it back to the standard 63. I'm assuming this is because that is what it does with Vista's 2048 offset. The D: partition will remain in slot 4 when you restore with TI. It should not cause any problems being in slot 4, however.

I have previously tried "moving" a partition table slot entry and it didn't work correctly. I only tried once, though, and I don't remember what exactly went wrong. I think it may have been the bootsector (and possibly some following sectors) that I didn't copy, but I did run the problem down. I would personally follow the other suggestion and just copy off all the files, delete the partition, recreate it and then copy the files back.

Another option to try (if you have enough room), would be to resize the D: partition smaller, making unallocated space between C: and D:. Then, using the Copy Partition Wizard of DD, copy the D: partition into the unallocated space. The new partition should be created in slot 2 since it's the next available slot. Once the copy is complete, delete the D: partition and resize the new partition to the end of the disk. Then reassign the D: drive letter to the new partition.

 

URGENT question -
As if I don't have enough progblems, toshiba thinks my video controller is screwed up, so I may have to send unit back.

IF I RESTORE the ORIGINAL configuration, to original state (toshiba system, vista c: with their bot sector pointing to c:, etc), to ship it back to them -

when I get it Back, I SHOULD be able to take today's back up, wipe the drive, restor c:, to begiinning of drive, AND the BOOT edits that I did (to point to "boot") will actually be in the C: backup, so that reboot should work OK?

thanks
Nick

 

Nick:

A lot of vendors will let you remove and keep the hard disk and then send the PC back to them without a hard disk. I know IBM/Lenovo does this but I'm not sure about Toshiba. If you're happy with your current setup I would try not to let them get their hands on your hard disk.

But to answer your question, yes, you should be able to restore your current backup to the beginning of the drive and it will contain the BCD edits that were saved in the image and should boot just fine. If you have a current full-disk backup with TI you can also just restore the entire disk and you should be back to where you're at now.

Gotta love TI; when it works it is really great to have.

 

Even with all the aggravation, TI hs preserved the c: and d: partitions, it basicaly took editing various parameters to get it to work correctly, but it was preserved. I would not do without this.

I had use dDrive Image, partition magic, until they got bought out; they were great; I then found TI, and its interface is GREAT.

I just got the TI 11 download/upgrade; may make a separete disk for that, but will rely on TI 10 until TI 11 is used a bit more, see if they can fix the 2048 sector parameter issue, etc.

re: the hard drive, you are right, I will try and KEEP the hard drive....
Nick

 

Oh, well, they won't let me keep the hard drive.
Off I go to back this up AGAIN,, then reload an early backup that has minimal data on it......
nick

 

NEW (old) issue

If you do a BACKUP of a drive (vista)
and then you go and MOUNT the drive, to extract some files (c: drive), and I try to havigate to the DOCuments folder -
you are able to SEE some of them, BUT there are permissions issues in letting you open or extract the files.
what do we do, to allow full permission, when mounting a backed-up drive?

just another vista issue.....
nick

 

I think you have to restore the files you want (to an alternate location) and then take over the permissions for them. There are some theads/posts on this in the TI forum, but I don't have any saved for quick reference.

 

you know, today I have about hit a point whre I'm ready to go back to paper, and throw out every computer I have (about 8 of them)
I consider myself pretty knowledgable with this stuff, working with it for about 20+ years, since an apple II plus, serial # 300. I've programmed in three languages.
but when it hits the point of taking one month to configure a new machine to tweak it, get the junk off of it, get partitions right, find out that your video card is bad (NEW tablet PC), ahve to ship it back, have to clean off the hard drive back to ground zero, have to CLONE that data as actual files so you can use your PRIOR laptop for emergency work for the week that your system is out of production;
all the while continuing my job at my office (medical), working with macro's to transfer data between incompatible systems, trying to get data into excel spreadsheets to make transfer easier ......
I really don't know that we have made any progress at all.

anyway, thanks for listening.
nick