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How to "repair" the dual-boot capability of Bootcamp

Asked by bleggee in Bootcamp, Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

Tags: Apple, Macbook Pro, Bootcamp

This is a little long, thanks in advance for any help with this:
I have 2 Macbook Pro's. Both have 2 partitions, one for Leopard and one for XP with Bootcamp. I want to copy everything from one Mac (15" Macbook Pro), copy both partitions & OS's & Data, to the other  Macbook pro (is a 17").    This was the easy part .... but
When I am done transferring all the data, The Dual-boot stops working ... specifically, ALL the data is copied over, but  depending on which Util I use to imagecopy-transfer the data, either Windows or Mac will not boot. I boot the Mac holding the Alt/Option key, and only one option will boot (Mac or XP), the other will just freeze on a blank screen.
I did speak with one of the Engineers of the Util I used to copy the data (RDrive-Image) who says that the "Master Boot Record", which lives outside the 2 bootable partitions, is not right and I need to fix it. Makes sense, because the problem does not get fixed, even if I reinstall the OS's from the original system disks afterwards. (He sounds like a PC guy though ... I'm not sure if we call it a MBR in the Mac world)
Soooooooooooo When I go back to Mac run Bootcamp to try and fix the dual-boot Boot record issue, I can re-run Bootcamp, but only if I select to Re-Partition the drive again.
Does anybody have any insight on how I can resolve this?
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