Gee, leave it to me to be the first... I did edit the boot.ini right away to remove the duplicate OS--the only difference in my version and yours...
The bootcfg /rebuild process from the XP CD worked!!! I'm actually posting this from my Dell Lattitude. The restored contents of the drive...
I was afraid this was too good to be true: I followed Method 2: only 1 option was presented after pressing "R" and that was c:\winnt. I pressed...
I only saw 18.6 GB available via the ATI8 rescue disk after the replacement HD was installed. I'm sure Dell intended it to be that way since I...
As I remember the process, I saw no display of individual files or tracks to be restored. I selected the name of the image to be restored from a...
The drive clearly said "refurbished." I suppose that the other 20 GB was not made available because Dell is only obliged to replace the 20 GB...
Interesting approach. It seems to depend upon having access to the disk although does mention an alternate method using the I386 directory which...
Sorry, I'm not sure how to get to boot.ini since I can't get a c:> prompt because of the error message mentioned above.
>>What problems did you notice when the computer crashed?<< The drive started making a high-pitched noise about 4 hours before it failed....
I'll take a look at BootItNG since that doesn't depend on having a Windows CD--an apparently rare item these days. I actually tried to buy a new...
Thanks for the quick reply. I have (2) 20 GB drives, C and F. The image was of C only, a single partition, or so I thought. According to the...
Sorry, I just followed the link from Acronis' web site and it brought me here (after some login hassles.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The C drive crashed on my Dell Latitude last week and I...
The C drive crashed on my Dell Latitude last week and I thought restoring it would be no big deal since I had a current image with ATI 8. After...
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