Operating System not found

I got this problem fixed somehow, with all you guys help, and Microsoft,
Symantec, Maxtor, etc., using Norton Systemworks ghreboot.exe and Maxblast,
etc.

The hard drive was working just fine for several weeks, until about two
weeks ago, I shut down the computer for some reason (I usually leave it on
all the time) and it wouldn't boot up again.

I am still working on trying to figure out how I fixed it last time.

This is perplexing!



"mdp" wrote:

That's the thing about newsgroups, sometimes you're the pigeon, sometimes
you're the statue.

Partition Magic can do just about anything (I want to do) with partitions
such as booting from a partition that's not the first partition. I'm not
sure if FDISK can but I think so. I use Ghost to copy partitions, not
drives, all the time. If I need to set a partition active, I do so as
another step. That way I don't need to back up an entire drive which today
can be quite large.


"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
mdp wrote:

Make sure the boot partition is set to "active". FDISK
(or PartitionMagic, others) can check/do this.

That's what I told him in the third post in this thread.

Then others jumped all over my plan.

Turns out I was right.

Ghost must have done a partition copy - not a drive-to-drive copy.

The partition is not set to active.

If the OP wants to boot from the second parition on a 2-partition
drive - that's something I've never tried to do. Theoretically you'd
have to remove the "active partition" setting on the first partition
(drive C) and give it to the second partition (drive d). Does FDISK
give you the ability to remove the "active partition" setting? I know
it won't let you set more than 1 partition as active on a system.

I recommend that the user buy a second hard drive and slave it into
the system and do a ghost copy from D to the new drive, then remove
the first drive (and set the new drive as primary master) and boot
from a floppy with FDISK and use FDISK to set the new drive's
partition as active. Then it should be bootable.