I take it that you are running XP Home, unfortunately WMIC is not
available on XP Home.
From your boot.ini file we know that you are booting on disk #0, start
the Disk Management tool and tell us if disk 0 is your new hard disk. To
start the Disk Management tool enter diskmgmt.msc in the Start menu
Run box.
You said earlier that you were booting on drive G: but your reply here
would seem to indicate that you are booting on drive C. Please run the
following command at the Command Prompt and post the results:
set system
John
Debbie Graham wrote:
when I try those commands this is what I get
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Grahm.HOME-E87075FD81>wmic os get
systemdirectory, sys
temdrive /format:list >>c:\drvinfo.txt
'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Documents and Settings\Grahm.HOME-E87075FD81>
C:\Documents and Settings\Grahm.HOME-E87075FD81>wmic bootconfig list
full >>c:\d
rvinfo.txt
'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Debbie
That is the least of your problems at the present time, having your
Windows installation booting with a different drive letter is a time
bomb waiting to explode in your face! Your first order of business is
to fix this boot drive letter assignment before things blow up on you.
I much suspect that DL is correct in his assessment that after the
ghosting job the computer was rebooted while the old (parent) drive
was still connected, this caused Windows to assign a new (different)
drive letter (G
to the clone, this drive letter reassignment is a
disaster in the making, Windows cannot handle a change of the boot
volume drive letter.
We don't know how your drives are connected and which drive you are
truly using to boot the computer. We don't know how the guys who did
the replacement job connected the drives, we need to find out a few
facts before we can offer more help.
Please open a Command Prompt and run the following commands, (pressing
<Enter> after each command):
wmic os get systemdirectory, systemdrive /format:list >>c:\drvinfo.txt
wmic bootconfig list full >>c:\drvinfo.txt
wmic diskdrive get deviceid, model, name, partitions, size
/format:list
c:\drvinfo.txt
Finally enter the following command:
c:\drvinfo.txt
Notepad will open the file, copy and paste the contents to your next
post.
Pay attention to word wrap, the above commands are each on one line
only. You can copy and paste from here to the Command Prompt if you
want.
Help us identify your drives, please give us the name/model and size
of your new and old drive.
Does your computer have a floppy drive? You may need to boot the
computer with a Windows 98 boot diskette to fix this problem.
John
Debbie Graham wrote:
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this is my problem
Debbie
If you fire up msconfig the boot ini tab should indicate which is
the boot drive
I'm still waiting for them to get back with me but I did figure why
the c drive wasn't showing in system restore, the system
information file must have been corrupt. I click to sgut down
system restore and went into c drive and deleted the system
information folder, rebooted went back to system restore and c
drive was back in there. The only problem I'm having now is in
device manager under the disk drives, the ude this device option is
greyed out for c drive but not for the g drive, and when I click on
volumes for both drives they both say MBR, does that mean somehow
both drives listed as the boot drive but the G drive is actually
doing the boot up?
Debbie
Yes I'm calling them now about it.
Debbie
It sounds like he ghosted the drive, then rebooted without first
disconnecting the old, that will cause the old to remain as the
boot drive, containing the boot record.
You could try disconnecting the old drive and using the fixboot
cmd from recovery consol, but you might want to take it back for
them to fix, as presumably you paid them
Yeah he ghost the drive.
Debbie
The work was undertaken by an incompetent person;
It appears they failed to clone your old drive to the new
correctly and as such your old drive is still the boot drive (a
boot drive doesnt have to be C)
I just had a new hard drive put in and the old one as a
storage one but when I go into system restore it doesn't show
C drive as my operating system, it shows my G drive which is
the second old drive for storage. Is it possible that when the
guy switched them for me didn't put the second drive as slave?
When I open the drive it has nothing on it but if I right
click the drive and go to clean up disk and select more
options, installed programs, it shows all my installed
programs that are on the new drive and that were supposed to
be formatted off that G drive. System restore doesn't even
show C drive as a drive to monitor. My new drive is
partitioned in a C, D, E and F drive, system restore shows, D,
E, F and the G drive claiming that is the main operating drive
and cannot shut restore off without shutting all drives off.
Need help, thanks
Debbie
