Drive not detected

[torontodave]

I had to do a low level format of my hard drive to remove partions so that I could make an image from one identical PC to the other (because PC I was imaging had no partitions).

I have created the new drive with both Driveimage XML and with Ghost, but it still will not boot. I simply get a flashing cursor at the top of the screen.

I only have one drive/partition, when I connect it as a slave to the other machine, all of the files appear to be intact on the copies including system files. The hard drive previously worked without any issues.

I have tried bootcfg, fixmbr, fixboot with no luck. I see format/s or sys dos commands are no longer available under XP.

What else can I do?

When you have the drive connected as slave to your other machine rt
click on MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management.
Can you rt click on the drive and select Mark as Active?




"torontodave" <torontodave.3nw7ze@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> I had to do a low level format of my hard drive to remove partions so
> that I could make an image from one identical PC to the other (because
> PC I was imaging had no partitions).
>
> I have created the new drive with both Driveimage XML and with Ghost,
> but it still will not boot. I simply get a flashing cursor at the top
> of the screen.
>
> I only have one drive/partition, when I connect it as a slave to the
> other machine, all of the files appear to be intact on the copies
> including system files. The hard drive previously worked without any
> issues.
>
> I have tried bootcfg, fixmbr, fixboot with no luck. I see format/s or
> sys dos commands are no longer available under XP.
>
> What else can I do?
>
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[torontodave]

[quote=Rich Barry;4255723]When you have the drive connected as slave to your other machine rt
click on MyComputer>select Manage>Disk Management.
Can you rt click on the drive and select Mark as Active?

Well, that did help... I got the drive to boot xp, but it seems to freeze up just after initial windows splash screen and just before welcome screen comes up. I did try reimaging again to see if that would help, but same result. Any suggestions for new problem? lol

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:17:15 +0530, torontodave
<torontodave.3nw7ze@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:


> I had to do a low level format of my hard drive to remove partions so
> that I could make an image from one identical PC to the other (because
> PC I was imaging had no partitions).


If you truly did a low-level format, you destroyed the drive. Modern
drives cannot take low-level formatting.

But perhaps you just used one of those programs which wrote zeros
everywhere on the drive; that would not destroy the drive. But
unfortunately some people mistakenly call such programs low-level
format.

And you did *not* need to do either of those things.