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Did you try the "fixboot" command from the recovery console?
Saved me from a win2k blue screen.
http://www.computerhope.com/fixboot.htm
MICROSOFT DOS
Information about the fixboot command.
ABOUT FIXBOOT
The fixboot command is a recovery console command that creates a new
partition boot sector.
--- Michael Guess <mguess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- Michael Guess <mguess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jimmy et al,
>
> Like many of you, I like to clone my hard disk (drawered so I can swap it
> if necessary). I used to use Ghost but panicked one day when I wasn't sure
>
> which drive was truly Master and which one was Destination. That
> encouraged
> me to switch to Casper, as I love its interface, etc. (especially that it
> can do its thing within Windows).
>
> As you may recall, several weeks ago I had a disaster during a backup that
>
> wiped out my backup and caused a registry problem that could only be
> resolved by reinstalling my Win2k OS. It's been plenty rough since then,
> but the other night I decided it was time to preserve my hard work, so I
> used Casper to back up.
>
> At the very end of the backup I got a warning from Zone Alarm Pro that it
> had defended against something (not an intrusion). I tried clicking on the
>
> OK button to make it go away but it wouldn't budge. Things appeared
> frozen.
> Suddenly I got the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, just as I did before.
> After a major hissy fit, I calmed down and tried rebooting my main disk.
> No
> luck.
>
> This timing is especially bad (isn't it always) as I was closing in on a
> trading seminar I'm scheduled to do this week. Desperation drove me to try
>
> booting from the cloned copy. It actually made it past the Windows splash
> screen and was playing the wav file you hear when finally arriving at the
> Desktop. Suddenly, I got a message saying I was either missing my PageFile
>
> or it was too small. The problem was how could I go in to correct that if
> I
> couldn't even finish booting.
>
> A friend researched this for me and advised I could assign the C drive
> designation to the destination drive by booting from a Win98 floppy or CD,
>
> then running 'ckdsk /mbr' which would take care of the problem. I am now
> typing this from the destination drive that's now my main drive, with all
> my apps intact. Say halleluja!
>
> All of this is to warn others that there MAY be a link between Casper and
> ZA Pro (latest version) which can cause such disasters. I'm going back
> behind a router firewall and uninstalling my ZA. Meanwhile, I'm looking
> for
> safe alternatives to Casper. I encourage further discussion on this, as
> many of you really extended yourselves to help me before. I'm very
> grateful, and hope I can prevent others from similar disasters. This isn't
>
> meant to diss Casper per se, as I really loved using it until this came
> up.
> I just want to help others prevent similar fates.
>
> Thanx to all,
>
> Michael
> >
> ---
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