asked on XP No Boot - Flashing Underscore, no CD drive or Floppy
I have a Lenovo X61 running XP. I have no floppy drive or optical drive. Nor original disks.
The internal 100GB SATA drive is noisy and being replaced.
I have some 160GB at my disposal. as well as USB to SATA cables. I have cloned (Acronis TrueImage) the noisy drive to one of the 160GB drive.
After the clone, all the data is on the new drive, including the hidden utility partition that allows one to do a factory fresh install of Windows and some other utilities. When this drive gets installed, it does not boot. It hangs at the flashing underscore, black screen.
I would like to try a fixmbr, but I haven't figured out how to do this without a floppy drive or CD drive. I DO have various USB drives, thumb drives and raw SATA drives with USB/SATA cables
There is a "Thinkvantage" button that allows me to perform a few different tasks like a full windows install, but I don't see any way to do a simple recovery.
I work with PC's, but I'm more of a Mac guy.
How do I get my newly imaged drive to boot normally?
Thank you.
The internal 100GB SATA drive is noisy and being replaced.
I have some 160GB at my disposal. as well as USB to SATA cables. I have cloned (Acronis TrueImage) the noisy drive to one of the 160GB drive.
After the clone, all the data is on the new drive, including the hidden utility partition that allows one to do a factory fresh install of Windows and some other utilities. When this drive gets installed, it does not boot. It hangs at the flashing underscore, black screen.
I would like to try a fixmbr, but I haven't figured out how to do this without a floppy drive or CD drive. I DO have various USB drives, thumb drives and raw SATA drives with USB/SATA cables
There is a "Thinkvantage" button that allows me to perform a few different tasks like a full windows install, but I don't see any way to do a simple recovery.
I work with PC's, but I'm more of a Mac guy.
How do I get my newly imaged drive to boot normally?
Thank you.
Microsoft Legacy OSWindows XPStorageAcronis
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MbrFix.exe
http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm
Might try the fixmbr option while it is slaved in another system, or boot to something like UBCCD.
http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm
Might try the fixmbr option while it is slaved in another system, or boot to something like UBCCD.
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Hi,
Do you have the option of creating an ISO from the IBM utilities? You could then burn this to a bootable USB stick, boot from USB with the new, non-working imaged drive in the laptop and run MBR fix or repair?
Regards,
RobMobility.
Do you have the option of creating an ISO from the IBM utilities? You could then burn this to a bootable USB stick, boot from USB with the new, non-working imaged drive in the laptop and run MBR fix or repair?
Regards,
RobMobility.
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Accepting my solution which was to follow the suggestions of a slightly different thread. Points assigned here for contributions there. ;-) Link above.
There is a repair option that seems to be grayed out and unavailable.
Do you know of a way to invoke a repair option that might be different than what I'm looking at?