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#1
I have encountered a problem once again.  I have used this method to copy two hard drives, but now I found one I am unable to copy.

Quote from: rhorgan on 2008.03.13, 21:18:03FDISK to partition the disk
format the drive
fdisk /newmbr
SYSINSTX C:
XCOPY /H /O /T /S /E /R /V x:\* y:\ (where x:\ is source and y:\ is destination)

The computer I'm copying to has AMIBIOS 1.04, same as a computer that has worked in the past with identical settings.
Both computers are from the same manufacturer and an 80 gig HDD jumpered with limit capacity and only show up as 4gig

Computer is probably about 133mhz.  The reason I'm cloning the computer is because it is now experiencing problems on boot and think the HDD may be failing.  These problems being it gets to the OS/2 GUI desktop screen and locks up.

However when attempting to boot off the new HDD I recieve error SYS2025 followed by SYS2027 and as per the user guide I have for warp V3 it is related to a disk read error.  However the new HDD was partitioned and formatted inside this computer and had the other files copied over to it fine using the xcopy command listed above.

I attempted running chkdsk /f on disk without luck.  Is there anyway I could make it boot with a boot manager or someway to repair the booting process?

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
#2
Hey man thanks for the response, I wish I would've checked this forum sooner rather than an entire day at work I just came back to post how I fixed it.

It turns out technology was the problem! (Alot funnier if you are from canada and have seen the heritage PSAs)

FDISK to partition the disk
format the drive
fdisk /newmbr
SYSINSTX C:
XCOPY /H /O /T /S /E /R /V x:\* y:\ (where x:\ is source and y:\ is destination)

CPU was 133mhz, god only knows how old with 128mb ram
it was OS/2 Warp v3
FAT was installed on both drives
#3
I am trying to backup a OS/2 install on a SCSI drive of about 500MB in size onto an IDE Drive.  The IDE drive is a seagate jumpered to look like an 8GB drive and I can install a new OS/2 perfectly on the drive so I know the drive is good.  I used a tool I have (Solitaire turbo http://www.logicube.com/products/hd_duplication/solitaire.asp) to perform a mirror clone of the drive (bit for bit).

When booting I recieved "Missing operating system".  I booted the install disks and ran "fdisk /newmbr" then "sysintx C:"

However now it will not boot past the BIOS finding the boot record on the drive.

So I am stuck here looking at "Searching for boot record from IDE-0... OK" where it would normally start OS/2 any suggestions?