I did it too. Help make it boot!

[gieto]

my C: was failing.
I copied/cloned it to a drive in a USB enclosure.
I need it to boot in the same machine, replacing the old drive.
What did i miss that its not booting?

 

[r_manic]

Have you tried repairing the boot sector of your hard disk? For all you know your C is only "failing" because of a corrupted boot record.

 

[gieto]

nah, the drive won't initialize or spin up anymore. it's toast, my issue is making the new drive bootable. got any help with that?

 

[gieto]

details, now that i've slept, dell unit running XP Pro sp3.
all data transfered via *.* with live file copy(windows files currently in use are copied too) when viewing in disk manager shows it is NOT system drive(bootable).
how do I make this happen?

 

[neon neophyte]

copying the disk wont fix the MBR.

listen to manic.

 

[gieto]

I'm not trying to fix the MBR. That drive IS dead. i have it copied and want the copy to replace it.