What order of imaging is required?

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Eric Gisin said:
I think they copy boot sector exactly, which is insufficient.
They have to patch the CHS values to match the partition table.
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I believe that the OP is copying partition 1 on the old drive to
partition 1 on the new drive, and partition 1 has the boot files,
including ntldr. What would change that would make partition 1
and its contained ntldr not findable?

*TimDaniels*
 
Timothy Daniels wrote in news:[email protected]
That's logical and probably true..
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Right, so obviously your comment about it missing was utterly clueless.
I'm only going by what several websites stated - that other missing boot
files could also result in "ntldr missing or corrupt" error messages.
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But that was not what you said, now was it, Timmy.
It *is* conceivable that ntldr returning an error code upon not finding
a valid boot.ini or not finding an ntdetect.com to pass control to would
cause the boot sector logic to class the error as due to a "missing ntldr".
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Keep digging, Timmy child. How's your chinese.
...caused by a boot sector that actually applied to the old
partition now being overwritten by the new image file which
does not have a boot sector?
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Nope. You can't have an image without a bootsector.
The bootsector defines the filesystem used in the image.
 
Timothy Daniels wrote in news:[email protected]
I believe that the OP is copying partition 1 on the old drive to
partition 1 on the new drive, and partition 1 has the boot files,
including ntldr.
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What would change that would make partition 1
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Partition 1 is perfectly 'findable' as is its bootsector.
ntloader will not be found because ...
and its contained ntldr not findable?
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.... different CHS settings between the 2 drives maybe?

What exactly did you not understand, Timmy, in:

" I think they copy boot sector exactly, which is insufficient.
They have to patch the CHS values to match the partition table."
 
"Folkert Rienstra" (a.ka. "Rod Speed", "Eric Gisin") spewed:
What exactly did you not understand, Timmy, in:

" I think they copy boot sector exactly, which is insufficient.
They have to patch the CHS values to match the partition table."
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I don't know, why not turn to your left hand and ask Eric.

*TimDaniels*
 
Timothy Daniels wrote in news:[email protected]
"Folkert Rienstra" (a.ka. "Rod Speed", "Eric Gisin") spewed:

I don't know,
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Yes, Timmy, not a clue.
why not turn to your left hand and ask Eric.
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So Eric, what did toddler Timmy not understand in:

" I think they copy boot sector exactly, which is insufficient.
They have to patch the CHS values to match the partition table."
 
"Folkert Rienstra" (a.ka.a "Rod Speed", "Eric Gisin", et. al.) finally
sputtered:
So Eric, what did toddler Timmy not understand in:
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Give it a rest, Rod. We all know who and what you are.

*TimDaniels*
 
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