JBinCA
Electrical
- Jun 25, 2005
- 98
Hi all,
I normally take images of my entire laptop HDD about every six months using Symantec ghost , and back-up all data much more often.
When attempting to create a new image last week, ghost failed and informed me that there were bad sectors on the HDD. I have two partitions on the drive, one for system / program files, the other for Data. Somewhere along the line, I got a message that the corrupt sectors pertained to my data partition. Since I have loaded a decent number of programs since my last image, I created an image of just the system partition (which was theoretically intact).
My system is runing fine on hte existing HDD. The first indication of a problem was the failed image attempt. The two data files that were flagged as being on currupt sectors are no longer readable from within windows either.
I bought a new HDD and created the necessary partitions from control panel / computer manageent / storage. I then attempted to load the system / program partition from file onto the desired partition in the new HDD. This seemed to work. When I swapped the new HDD for the old HDD in my laptop, I receieved an error on start-up (at the black screen stage) that says "no bootable device found" (or words to that effect).
I have also used ghost to do a direct clone from the old HDD to the new HDD and have the same problem when attempting to start the system.
My laptop is a dell Lattitude D610, it is about 1.5 years old. I am runing XP pro SP 2.
The old HDD is an 80Gb 2.5 in IDE sytle. The new HDD is a 120Gb 2.5 in EIDE style. I was under the impression that the EIDE would be used in place of IDE, but could this be my problem?
I also used an external HD enclosure to set-up the new HDD. I found an article on the web that mentioned that the temporary drive letter assigned to the drive could be retaied in the registry. I would have thought this would have been blown out when I cloned directly (which was my last operation).
Does know what the problem might be? Any advice?
I normally take images of my entire laptop HDD about every six months using Symantec ghost , and back-up all data much more often.
When attempting to create a new image last week, ghost failed and informed me that there were bad sectors on the HDD. I have two partitions on the drive, one for system / program files, the other for Data. Somewhere along the line, I got a message that the corrupt sectors pertained to my data partition. Since I have loaded a decent number of programs since my last image, I created an image of just the system partition (which was theoretically intact).
My system is runing fine on hte existing HDD. The first indication of a problem was the failed image attempt. The two data files that were flagged as being on currupt sectors are no longer readable from within windows either.
I bought a new HDD and created the necessary partitions from control panel / computer manageent / storage. I then attempted to load the system / program partition from file onto the desired partition in the new HDD. This seemed to work. When I swapped the new HDD for the old HDD in my laptop, I receieved an error on start-up (at the black screen stage) that says "no bootable device found" (or words to that effect).
I have also used ghost to do a direct clone from the old HDD to the new HDD and have the same problem when attempting to start the system.
My laptop is a dell Lattitude D610, it is about 1.5 years old. I am runing XP pro SP 2.
The old HDD is an 80Gb 2.5 in IDE sytle. The new HDD is a 120Gb 2.5 in EIDE style. I was under the impression that the EIDE would be used in place of IDE, but could this be my problem?
I also used an external HD enclosure to set-up the new HDD. I found an article on the web that mentioned that the temporary drive letter assigned to the drive could be retaied in the registry. I would have thought this would have been blown out when I cloned directly (which was my last operation).
Does know what the problem might be? Any advice?
