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speakingdigital
Joined: 21 Oct 2010
61920
Posted: 21 Oct 2010
I came across Raw Copy on UBC4WIN and used it to copy the contents of a 500GB Windows XP install to a 750GB drive. I can see the files are on the 750GB drive, but the computer will not boot from the drive. Any thoughts on where to start? Does the copied drive not have the ability to boot a PC?
Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia
Posted: 2 Mar 2011
Ahhh! Im assuming you copied logical drives and not physical ones? What you will need to do is boot of a system disk or the XP CD, go to the command line and run FDISK and make sure the partition you copied the data too is set as "active". This is what tells windows the drive is bootable!

Cheers!

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