Lost path to boot drive - Help please
You must have booted with your origonal c still attached.
Disconnect all drives except the one you want, reboot if it doesnt, use your
win dvd to repair
There is also a vague possibility that your mobo requires the use of a
specific connector for the boot drive.
"TimB" wrote in message
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Thanks, Peter.
I did have them both connected, but just disconnected the original "C"
drive and rebooted.
I got a BIT farther when the light blue windows screen appeared. It
now tells me that it couldn't find the path/file, etc to RUNDLL32.EXE.
I assume that means that the OS paths are screwed up as the CLONE
drive is still set at drive H: and I cannot see anyway to change it to
drive C, which I assume the OS wants.
Thoughts?
Tim
On Feb 25, 7:05 pm, "peter" wrote:
That usually only happens when you boot with the Cloned drive and
the drive you cloned from still attached.
After a clone you are supposed to shut down, remove the old drive and
place the
new drive
in its position then reboot.
did you do that??
peter
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"TimB" wrote in message
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I have a Windows Vista Ultimate system with 4 SATA hard drives
configured to look like IDE drives through an ASUS motherboard.
I had the boot drive set as drive C: with a variety of applications
installed on it. Two days ago I 'cloned' that drive to a new larger
drive with the most recent version of Norton Ghost. That drive showed
as drive H:.
I've been trying to get the new drive to show as drive c:, as all my
applications want to read data or write settings to drive C:. I've
used the disk manager in Vista to change the drive letter assignments,
even swapped the SATA cables between the two and probably some other
settings in BIOS, etc. -- The original boot drive now shows as drive
G: and the 'new' drives shows as H:.
The system is now SO screwed up that although I can boot into
Windows it will not bring up any of my applications and simply shows a
light blue background with no toolbars or icons. I can use Ctrl-Alt-
Del to get into the task manager and try to start a management program
but it always shows 'Path Not Found' and references drive H:.
Can anyone make a suggestion on how I get one of the 'boot' drives
seen as drive C: again and boot into Vista? Maybe even to the point
where I can use the Vista DVD to repair one of them?
Thanks for helping an idiot!
Tim
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