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11-19-2013, 08:46 PM
I don't know if this goes in the "Boat Anchor-Homebrew section or, the Computor-Electronics section.
History: I have two identical 3.5 inch Hard Drives, one has an boot-able backup image from my laptop (Windows XP Home) and the other drive was from a Win XP-Pro Desktop whos system drive failed and I could not repair it or extract data.
An associate with connections to a local university IT department was cleaning out his workspace and, he came accross a dual core Motherboard (GigaByte G-41-M); swearing it was good and he had upgraded a buddies Desktop Unit, he gave me the board, CPU, and Memory.
I threw the parts in an ATX case with power supply and the first thing that I noticed was that the LED Mouse had power as soon as the PS was plugged into the wall; 5 volts was being fed through out the board to the PS-2 mouse at all times. This was the hinky-est Computer system that I ever touched
I placed the drives in the case and loaded Vista, the Computer Dual Booted to "Vista" and 'An Earlier Version ofWindows'. Computers do the darnest things when you don't expect them to.
I was able to boot into either system until the secondary system had an error "Windows\System32\Config\SYS\ was damaged or missing". I really did not need to boot into that Win Home Edition.
My OS is installed on the once-failed HD that is now failing again. I tried to Ghost an image of the HD to another unit but I getg a error, "Cannot Load MFT".
Any suggestions on how to fix the boot sector on the XP home (the recovery files are load in a separate partition) and how to Clone the operating system drive which is failing daily ?
Also used R-Drive Image but, it created a same size partition on the new HD as on the old HD and left 400 Gigs of un-allocated space.
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History: I have two identical 3.5 inch Hard Drives, one has an boot-able backup image from my laptop (Windows XP Home) and the other drive was from a Win XP-Pro Desktop whos system drive failed and I could not repair it or extract data.
An associate with connections to a local university IT department was cleaning out his workspace and, he came accross a dual core Motherboard (GigaByte G-41-M); swearing it was good and he had upgraded a buddies Desktop Unit, he gave me the board, CPU, and Memory.
I threw the parts in an ATX case with power supply and the first thing that I noticed was that the LED Mouse had power as soon as the PS was plugged into the wall; 5 volts was being fed through out the board to the PS-2 mouse at all times. This was the hinky-est Computer system that I ever touched
I placed the drives in the case and loaded Vista, the Computer Dual Booted to "Vista" and 'An Earlier Version ofWindows'. Computers do the darnest things when you don't expect them to.
I was able to boot into either system until the secondary system had an error "Windows\System32\Config\SYS\ was damaged or missing". I really did not need to boot into that Win Home Edition.
My OS is installed on the once-failed HD that is now failing again. I tried to Ghost an image of the HD to another unit but I getg a error, "Cannot Load MFT".
Any suggestions on how to fix the boot sector on the XP home (the recovery files are load in a separate partition) and how to Clone the operating system drive which is failing daily ?
Also used R-Drive Image but, it created a same size partition on the new HD as on the old HD and left 400 Gigs of un-allocated space.
.