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Peter <peterfoxghost@yahoo.ca> wrote in
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>> My setup is, for purposes of this discussion, one physical drive, two
>> logical drives/partitions, ghost on the C drive and image on the D drive.
> So it seems that you have taken a logical C drive
> partition image and stored it on logical D drive partition.
Thats fine, I do that all the time on the test system because
I want to be able to switch between various canned installs.
> If you use that image for restoring your C partition, system
> might not boot because MBR was not stored/restored.
It shouldnt need to be restored, it will just have
the normal loader in it which should boot the
boot partition fine after its been restored.
And that shouldnt see ghost 9 refuse to restore it anyway,
at worst it should just fail to boot after the restore.
> I always image a whole boot disk for that matter, not partitions.
Imaging and restoring partitions works fine, I do it all the time.
>> RS> Why cant you boot the CD ?
>>
>> Good question. This is an ASUS A7V8X m/b. I can set the bios for what
>> appears to enable but it doesn't. My bios allows me to set a CD as a
>> SCSI/ATA drive (this one is an IDE, i.e. ATA therefore) and elevate it to
>> the initial boot position. BUT, it is ignored. My system is w2k; I'm
>> wondering if there are some config.sys, autoexec.bat things needed but I
>> don't see why since thought this was all at the hardware level.
>>
>
> That channel, you have your IDE CD-ROM installed, is it set to AUTO in BIOS
> Main Menu?
> Also, in BIOS Boot Menu, do you have ATAPI CD-ROM listed above IDE HD Drive?
> If not, use <+> or <-> keys to change that precedence.