MBR question?

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Norton Ghost was used to clone a 6GB hard drive to a 12GB
drive. The 12GB drive will not boot-up by itself, but the
machine will boot-up properly from a floppy disk. It is a
Windows 2000 machine that has been updated through SP4.

DISKPART.EXE says that the MBR resides at: Cylinder 0 Head
1 Sector 1. Is this the correct location for the MBR, or
should it reside at Cyl 0 Head 0 Sector 1?

If it is supposed to reside at the Cyl 0 Head 0 location,
any suggestions for how to move the disk's contents?

Thanks for your help.
Al
 
Al said:
Norton Ghost was used to clone a 6GB hard drive to a 12GB
drive. The 12GB drive will not boot-up by itself, but the
machine will boot-up properly from a floppy disk. It is a
Windows 2000 machine that has been updated through SP4.

DISKPART.EXE says that the MBR resides at: Cylinder 0 Head
1 Sector 1. Is this the correct location for the MBR, or
should it reside at Cyl 0 Head 0 Sector 1?

If it is supposed to reside at the Cyl 0 Head 0 location,
any suggestions for how to move the disk's contents?

Thanks for your help.
Al
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boot with your win2k cd and enter ther repair console


there are two commands you can issue

you may need one or the other (or both):



fixmbr


fixboot
 
Thanks for the suggestion, but using these did not fix the
problem.
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That's your problem. You were doing a Move to New Hardware - which is a PITA.
The following post courtesy Bruce Chambers should help - it points you to
several relevant articles.
..........................................................
From: "Bruce Chambers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.hardware
Subject: Re: New Computer, but W2K refuses to run
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:43:17 -0600

Greetings --

Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one
(same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need to perform a
repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least (and don't
forget to reinstall any service packs and subsequent hot fixes):

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Win2K Upgrade Changes and What It Doesn't
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952

If that fails:

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different
Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q2
49694

Bruce Chambers

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