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Unzip the file and place it on the desktop.Ħb) Double-click to run ptedit32 and view your main hard disk's partition table.
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So before rebooting, add this step:Ħa) Download Symantec Partition Table Editor, ptedit32.exe, from here. After changing boot.ini to point to partition(1), the system will not boot since the Windows partition is still in slot 2 of the partition table at this point. I think that you would need to add an additional step between steps 6 and 7 of the method described in your last post. Since you have several machines to do, this will get very easy after the first one. When you restore the C: partition, adjust the size to fill the new hard drive or leave unallocated space if you want to create a second (data) partition.
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Make a new full image backup and restore that to the new hard drive. If you have an XP installation CD, you can boot from it and run the XP Recovery console:Īnd use the FIXMBR command in the console:Īssuming the system boots normally immediately or after fixing the MBR, you now have the partition setup that you want. If you have an old Windows 98 boot floppy or CD, you can run FDISK C: /MBR to create a standard MBR now that the recovery partition is gone. There is a possiblility that Dell has altered the MBR to allow Shift-F11 to start the OEM restore process. If it doesn't, you can restore the image to get the system back running. Reboot and the system should come up normally. In Drive Management (Control panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Mangement and click on Drive Management on the left side) delete the first (diagnostic partition) and the last (OEM recovery) partition leaving only the C: partition.ħ. When done, right click, select Properties and restore the Read only and Hidden check boxes.Ħ. Edit boot.ini as shown by k0lo to make partition 1 the boot partition. Now Shift Right-click on boot.ini and select Open with. Uncheck the Read only box and the Hidden box.Ĥ. Right click on the boot.ini file and select Properties. Look in the root of C:, and you should see the boot.ini file.ģ. In Windows, confirm that Windows Explorer is set to show hidden files (Tools, Folder Options, View tab). Now, you could restore that if things go wrong.Ģ. Make an image of the entire hard drive (all partitions).
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I have a couple of other computers I would like to do this same upgrade and would like to only restore the Windows partition and leave the other partitions behind.Ĭlick to expand.How's this for simplification.ġ.
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I do have the Windows XP install CD in case that is helpful. My understanding is that if Windows can't find boot.ini it will simply create a new one.
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What tool or software program could I boot from to edit this file on the new hard drive? Can I edit the boot.ini file inside the image before it is restored? Alternately, how could I delete the boot.ini file. After restoring only the windows C: partition partition to the new hard drive how could I edit the boot.ini file to tell windows to look in partition 1 rather than partition 2. So I abandoned this approach and did a full restore of all partitions. I got an error message saying something to the effect that Windows couldn't load due to a hardware problem. This particular restore was unsuccessful I believe because the boot.ini file was expecting the operating system to be in partition 2, but it was now in partition 1. I have successfully done this in the past but only where the hard drive had one partition. I tried to restore only the C: partition without the MBR and let True Image place its own MBR on the drive (because I didn't want all the other stuff in the other partitions). The first contains diagnostic tools, the second contains Windows and is the largest partition, and third contains a recovery partition. The old hard drive was original from Dell and was laid out in 3 partitions. It worked beautifully and the computer is working just great. I restored the MBR and the three partitions with resizing to fit the new hard drive. I upgraded to a larger hard drive and used True Image 10 to capture a full disc image of the old drive to an external hdd and then used the boot CD to restore that image to the new drive. I have a Dell Dimension 8400 desktop with Windows XP MCE 2005 SP3.
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