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Setup & Installation / Re: Newly cloned hard drive doesn't boot
« on: 2009.04.17, 23:36:30 »One thing you can try is, download DFSee DOS boot disk, leave your harddisk in the system and boot from the DFSee floppy. Maybe DFSee shows you errors on startup about wrong CHS values or 'some bios can not boot' or something like that. Maybe this gives us a clue what's going wrong....
Thanks Andi, I'll give it a go next week when I have some time off work.
But I'm still curious as to why the hard drive will not boot in this PC. The PC I made it on was also a Celeron with a 100MHz fsb. I am using the same video card. I cannot help thinking if it boots in one PC it should boot in the other.
) , and I have used it to access the hard drive via a command prompt. Unfortunately I don't know how to use cmd to tell the hard drive to boot, and if I did, how would I know what to fix? I tried typing chkdsk /fixmbr, but it said it "cannot accept the fixmbrc parameter". At least I can browse the hard drive's contents in text mode.