Hi everyone:
I come across some problems about operating system boot right now. I copy the data on the boot partition to another disk and boot with the second disk and it succeeds. But when there is a hp hidden partition before (the system partition usually c:), it will fail. I copy the system partition(usually c:) to the first partition of the disk, modify the hidden sector field in the boot record to 63, then reboot with the second disk, and get the error message “Error loading operating system”. If I copy the entire disk to the second disk, it will work properly. So I think the problem may be caused by some offsets which are written somewhere on the disk.
kuangnuzhiren@163.com wrote:
I come across some problems about operating system boot right now. I copy the data on the boot partition to another disk and boot with the second disk and it succeeds. But when there is a hp hidden partition before (the system partition usually c:), it will fail. I copy the system partition(usually c:) to the first partition of the disk, modify the hidden sector field in the boot record to 63, then reboot with the second disk, and get the error message “Error loading operating system”. If I copy the entire disk to the second disk, it will work properly. So I think the problem may be caused by some offsets which are written somewhere on the disk.
Boot.ini (or the BCD record in Vista) contains the PnP path to the
operating system partition, which includes a partition number. Are you
updating that information?
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> Boot.ini (or the BCD record in Vista) contains the PnP path to the
operating system partition, which includes a partition number. Are you
updating that information?
“Error loading operating system” is from the MBR bootstrap code, not from bootmgr/ntldr.
Probably he forgot to mark the partition as active.
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Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com