Really need help! My Ghost 10 screw up.

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danshyu

Posted 11/22/2006 4:49 PM

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Recently I've bought a brand new 500Gig SATA harddrive. So I decided to use Ghost 10 to ghost my things from my old 250Gig SATA drive over to the new one. So I used the Disk-to-Disk copy.

Here's what I screwed up badly. I FORGOT to check the "copy MBR" option. And after I done ghosting. I then FORMATTED my original drive.

As you would probably figure out. Basically I can't boot up windows with this new drive while the old drive is formatted so I can't re-ghost it.

I managed to recover the files on the old drive with GetDataBack recovery. But how can I transfer MBR over to the new drive?

I didn't know how, so I ended up using the Windows repair console from the XP CD. I did the FIXMBR and rebuilt Boot.ini on the new drive. And it still wouldn't boot Windows.

So here I am asking for help for booting this hard drive without a working MRB. How can I like inject a working one? I know the surest way is to just reinstall everything. But I'm really looking for alternatives. Since it's going to be tons of work to reinstall. And there are programs I simply dun remember how to setup properly anymore.

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exTI

Posted 11/22/2006 6:26 PM

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Disk to disk should have copied the MBR over unless the copy MBR is not a default setting anymore. I dont know if this will work but it may. First do a fresh basic load on the 250gb disk. Then using Ghost (boot from the ghost cd) and copy partition to partition NOT disk to disk (500gb to 250gb). If the 250gb will boot then ghost back the 250gb to the 500gb and this time make sure the 'copy mbr' option is checked. That used to work for me with Ghost 2003. The only difference is I had 3 partitions on each drive. I dont think the number of partitions makes a difference but if it does when you do a fresh basic windows load dont allocate a small chunk of the 250gb drive to windows. Then when you boot to windows go into disk management and create that unallocated chuck to an extended partition.

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