TI v11 - cannot boot to restored partition

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I restored a partition containing an XP installation from my old hard drive to my new hard drive, and I can't get it to boot. It was the D: partition, and I restored it a partition also labelled D:. I restored this partition from XP on a different partition (C:) on the new drive. (I'm trying to get it to dual boot.) I've got a new entry in the boot.ini pointed to the right partition, but it starts to load windows then goes to a black screen with a movable cursor, nothing else. I have gone in to Recovery Console and done a bootcfg /rebuild and, interestingly, it found installations on C: and G: rather than C: and D: so I think the system is possibly assigning an incorrect drive letter before it boots, if this is even possible.

I have removed all other attached drives and deleted other partitions so that only two partitions remain, hoping that then the system would give the next available letter, D:, to my restored partition, but it still doesn't boot. Next time I get a chance I'll go into Recovery Console to see what drive letter that detects.

What else can I try? Will restoring from the Acronis CD be more reliable? What does the program do when I tell it to assign a particular drive letter?

Also, I want to use backup/restore to copy a Windows XP installation from one partition to another while keeping it's drive letter (C:) and keeping it the system partition, what's the best way to do this?

Here's some more detailed information about my problem. My old hard drive was dual boot with two partitions (C: and D:), each with a copy of XP Pro. D: was the more important one. I got a new hard drive and made 3 partitions, the first I left empty, the second I restored my image of D: to, the third I copied files and backup images to. I planned to connect the new drive, then install XP on the first partition, and change the boot.ini so that it points to the first and second partitions and I can boot to both installations. Seemed easy, but after installing XP on partition 1, I noticed that partition two with my restored image was now the G: drive. Also, the XP installation made partition one a logical extended drive, and made partition two the system drive so Windows wouldn't let me change the letter. I next made deleted partition 1 and made partition 3 the system partition and installed XP to that, which was now the C: drive. Now I could make partition 2 the D: drive and try to boot to it, but it wouldn't boot. Next I disconnected all other drives, left only two partitions, restored the D: drive again added it to boot.ini and it still won't boot. My second problem is I'd like to copy that partition 3 install over to partition 1, keeping the drive letter and making partition 1 the system drive.

I should have given up on this days ago, but I'm really curious why this won't work, I feel it must have something to do with how the system assigns drive letters prior to Windows loading.

Thanks,
Travis

Thu, 05/13/2010 - 08:06
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This might not be a big help, but drive assignments won't necessarily be the same in the restoration OS as on your regular system, so you might go into Win Disk Management and check the drive letter assignments.

Thu, 05/13/2010 - 10:23
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