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Sixpence
05-10-2002, 10:04 PM
Recently I installed windows back over itself.. I do it on and off-It's normally pain free, But this time halfway through the install a dialog box comes up "-6002 cannot intialise DirectIO"...
Wonderful... 001 is acting up... So I remove and finish the install. Try putting the card in later..
Get to the main windows screen... same box comes up..... Damn Damn... So I copy all the stuff I want to keep to another partition ( i've 2 HDD's with 6 partitons) and start from scratch reformatting C: along the way and getting everything to where I want it. I then burnt a copy of the drive to CD and copied to my D: drive (which is on another physical HDD).

Now for my problem. D won't boot. Now I know that windows writes to the boot sector of a drive & by copying across I'm not getting this. Is there any wat around this.. i'd like to run internet/games etc on this other drive. 2 computers was okay until you have to transfer stuff between them, so I'd rather use just one...

Also can someone suggest a program which will copy the drive kinda similar to the Restore disk that comes with a lot of computers?

Phew,,,
Stone Knife
05-10-2002, 10:37 PM
PowerQuest's Drive Image will do that plus lots more. XP compatible, too.
Eventually you will have to be able to choose which partition will be active; I know XP has this ability, I don't know about how you'll handle that aspect. PQ's Boot Magic (comes packaged with Partition Magic) will do it. Both those programs (Drive Image and Partition Magic) will enable you to do almost anything you can dream up with hard drives.

There are other good programs but the PQ's are the ones I can vouch for.
Sixpence
05-10-2002, 10:41 PM
I'll look into that..
Sixpence
05-10-2002, 10:55 PM
Here's some stuff I've found......

http://www.boot-us.com/index.htm

http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/may01/a rticles/pcmusician.asp (http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/may01/articles/pcmusician.asp)

Everyone should check out the Sound On Sound Site if they get a chance
Stone Knife
05-10-2002, 10:58 PM
Yep- the 'switcher' between active partitions should be a simple affair and that Boot-US (if it works) should be just the deal.