thanks for the help rindi...
im going the bartpe route.
do you know of a plugin for bartpe that will work?
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Browse All Topicsusing the trial version of drive snapshot. it seems to create the .sna file appropriately and then i boot into bartpe and it asks me to restore. i choose the .sna file from a usb hard drive and the restore process seems to work properly.
then this error comes up.
checkboot
No active partition detected
Please set a partition to active
anybody know what gives? if so whats the corrective measure.
the hard drive im restoring to has been formatted quick ntfs through and xp pro disk. thats all that is on the hard drive im trying to restore the image too.
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If bartpe includes windows' diskmanagement, you can probably use that to activate a partition, but the UBCD would be simpler to use, as it boots mainly DOS based utilities,that means it boots a lot faster (it's not the UBCD4WIN which would be similar to bartpe but includes more utilities as default.
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by: rindiPosted on 2009-09-22 at 03:11:58ID: 25391081
Normally you can only have one active partition on a system. The PC needs one such partition to boot from. On that partition it then looks for the mbr, and if it doesn't find it, it'll look on other partitions for that. You can make a partition active using most partitioning tools, like fdisk and others, and it is a very simple task which doesn't change any other data on the disk.
The UBCD includes a number of tools you can use for that.
http://ultimatebootcd.com