XP OS hangs when requested using DD11 os selector on Win 7

Nick,

Can you attach a copy of the BOOTWIZ.OSS file to a post (instructions can be found here)?

Was the Logical partition previously setup to boot directly into XP or are XP's booting files located on a separate Primary partition?

Hi MudCrab,

Thanks for your reply. I enclosed a copy of the bootwiz.txt.

The drive that has XP on it is a stand alone hard disk. It was the old disk from the Advent pc which sits in a drive caddy attached to the Acer via a USB cable. As far as I am aware there was no partition.

Nick

Nick,

XP won't boot and run properly from a USB drive unless it's tweaked to do so. The partition currently shown for XP on the USB drive is Primary. However, the Disk ID number doesn't match anything listed. As far as OSS knows, that drive isn't connected or is invalid.

The drive would need to be connected internally if you want to multi-boot with it. OSS should then be able to pick it up successfully. Just be aware that it may not run correctly (if it even runs) due to differences in the computer's hardware.

Hi MudCrab.

Thanks for the information.

If I was to copy the whole old hard disk to the new pc partioned disk which is unused would this then work? I have Disk Director 11, cany I choose copy volume tothis unused partition?

Nick

That would probably work. Is the new PC's drive currently completely empty (all unallocated space)? I'm not sure if DD 11 will modify the boot.ini file as part of the copy. It's currently set for the first partition. It may need edited if that isn't the case.

If there is any other data on the "new" drive that you don't want to lose, I recommend creating a backup image before you try this. From what you wrote, it sounds like you might be copying the XP partition to unpartitioned space on the new computer's main drive.

screen shot enclosed on DD, in pdf

I want to copy disk 5 to disk 1 data. Data D is empty. Do I select data d, copy volume , select disk 5?

Also could I do just a straight forward copy from disk 5 to disk 1 D:\ from widows explorer as can not get DD to copy for me?

I don't think a regular copy would work well. System files usually fail to copy correctly and cause a sorts of problems.

You would need to delete the "D:" partition first. You can only copy to unallocated space. Make sure to copy it as a Primary partition. Select the XP partition and then select Copy volume. Select Basic. Select the unallocated space on Disk 1 where "D:" used to be and click Next. Make sure it's a Primary partition and then click Finish.

Hi Mudcrab

Have successfully created D: volume copied old xp drive accross.

started oss, rebooted machine

came up with an error message

windows could not start, missing windowsroot>\system32\hal.dll

switched off pc
restarted
now keeps trying to load XP and keep going in a loop when I select either start windows normally, safe mode, networking, command prompt.

Can't get into win 7 to turn off OSS.

Help what do I do to fix this? As Pc wont work!

This acer pc did not come with a win 7 start up disc! but preloaded.
Tried to down load and burn a win 7 start up disc, tried on machine, now won't let me enter into bios or allow me to select boot system.
I did a true home image of my C:\drive last night.

Boot to the DD CD. The XP partition is probably set Active. Set the System Reserved partition Active.

I think you just need to adjust the boot.ini file. It's pointing to the wrong partition (should be ...partition(4)).

Nothing OSS did should affect the BIOS or entering the BIOS.