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Forum: Dell Computers November 20th 10, 06:58 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 45
Views: 1,759
Posted By Brian K
Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?


There is another way which may seem easier. From BING, just delete the
recovery partition. When you try to boot Win7 you will see BootMGR is
missing.

I omitted a step. While in BING, delete...
Forum: Dell Computers November 20th 10, 12:08 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 45
Views: 1,759
Posted By Brian K
Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?

Rob,

OK, I've seen the thread. This summarizes it...

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=409

Just regard your recovery partition as the SRP.
Forum: Dell Computers November 20th 10, 11:43 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 45
Views: 1,759
Posted By Brian K
Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?

Rob,

I've been away and I don't have the rest of the thread. Only your post. What
did I say about removing the recovery partition? Maybe I can fine tune it.
I assume you have Win7 with a recovery...
Forum: Dell Computers September 11th 10, 09:28 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 24
Views: 1,347
Posted By Brian K
win7 and P4's

Bruce,

I haven't tried a P3. I read about someone who installed Win7 on a P2 with
100 MB RAM.
Forum: Dell Computers September 5th 10, 12:36 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 7
Views: 815
Posted By Brian K
What the....?? (XPS Studio 8100 Pricing Issue)

In Australia, if you want a second HD for your computer, Dell charge 400%
over what you pay for the same HD from the local shop. Dell has done this
for the last few years. Dell used to charge double...
Forum: Dell Computers September 5th 10, 12:35 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 7
Views: 815
Posted By Brian K
What the....?? (XPS Studio 8100 Pricing Issue)

In Australia, if you want a second HD for your computer, Dell charge 400%
over what you pay for the same HD from the local shop. Dell has done this
for the last few years. Dell used to charge...
Forum: Dell Computers September 4th 10, 09:27 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 24
Views: 1,347
Posted By Brian K
win7 and P4's

"Bob Villa" wrote in message
...

I'm very surprised...sounds like a Win2K rig!


A mate gave me two of...
Forum: Dell Computers September 1st 10, 06:13 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 24
Views: 1,347
Posted By Brian K
win7 and P4's

mc,

My test computer is a P4 1.3 GHz. 384 MB RAM and 32 MB video card. Win7 runs
OK. A little slow of course but adequate for what I'm doing.
Forum: Dell Computers August 10th 10, 06:55 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 16
Views: 903
Posted By Brian K
Hal.dll trouble

"Sam" wrote in message
...

, will let you know if it shows up again.


Please do. It is weird.
Forum: Dell Computers July 28th 10, 11:59 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 16
Views: 903
Posted By Brian K
Hal.dll trouble

"Sam" wrote in message
...
I think that is why it took so long, it had to move all of the files.




Yes. It had to move...
Forum: Dell Computers July 28th 10, 01:06 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 16
Views: 903
Posted By Brian K
Hal.dll trouble

from what you say I may
delete the recovery & restore partition so that I only have one partition
on the HD and restore the image and let it write a standard XP MBR to the
disk.





Sam,
Forum: Dell Computers July 28th 10, 12:13 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 16
Views: 903
Posted By Brian K
Hal.dll trouble

Sam,

Thanks for the detailed info. I'd be interested to see your boot.ini when
your system is playing up. As I'm sure you would too. I don't know why it is
happening. I doubt boot.ini is changing...
Forum: Dell Computers July 27th 10, 09:05 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 16
Views: 903
Posted By Brian K
Hal.dll trouble

Sam,

The hal.dll error is related to boot.ini pointing to an incorrect partition.
Tell us about your HDs and partitions. Do you swap HDs around prior to the
error? Do you use a boot manager? Could...
Forum: Dell Computers July 26th 10, 03:17 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 2
Views: 338
Posted By Brian K
Image to an SSD drive

When you clone one HD to another (as a clone or an image/restore process),
on the first boot from the new HD you MUST have the old HD disconnected. Try
restoring the image again.

What...
Forum: Dell Computers July 19th 10, 10:48 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

"BillW50" wrote in message
...
yourself or run a script that somebody made. So nothing I said is untrue
at all.



When you put...
Forum: Dell Computers July 19th 10, 10:17 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 1
Views: 286
Posted By Brian K
About "BING" hope you are out there Brian K

press810,

You would certainly be able to boot the Diagnostic partition but not in the
way you suggested. The Diagnostic partition is just a FAT partition. So
create a Boot Item and use Swap. I...
Forum: Dell Computers July 19th 10, 10:01 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,

To make Windows XP to boot off of an...
Forum: Dell Computers July 19th 10, 01:43 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

I just booted Win7 64 bit from my eSATA external HD.
Forum: Dell Computers July 19th 10, 12:48 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

"press810" wrote in message
...
to more pessimistic views like Western Digital Tech support
which are...
Forum: Dell Computers July 19th 10, 12:39 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

press810,

There are good tutorials on using BING here....

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/howto/index.htm

BING can run from a floppy, CD or USB flash drive. You can partition, create
and restore...
Forum: Dell Computers July 18th 10, 08:45 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

Tim,

Does that Expresscard have its own BIOS? My card does. I don't know whether
it is essential for what I've been doing.
Forum: Dell Computers July 17th 10, 09:43 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

Tim,

That WinXP had been installed to my HD0 a few years ago and imaged
immediately after installation. It is my test image.
I would never install an OS to anything other than a HD seen as HD0 at...
Forum: Dell Computers July 17th 10, 08:04 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

BING installs into an 8 MB primary partition, usually on HD0. It makes use
of the Extended MBR, LBA-1 and beyond as well as the MBR, LBA-0. It contains
no drivers. It doesn't care if you have 1 or...
Forum: Dell Computers July 17th 10, 03:24 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

Tim,

Off topic but TeraByte Unlimited have a script that lets you boot WinXP from
a USB external HD or a USB flash...
Forum: Dell Computers July 16th 10, 12:06 PM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Replies: 27
Views: 1,521
Posted By Brian K
Booting off 2nd HD on Dell Studio 1745 Laptop

Tim,

BING works fine with Vista and Win7. I don't use Window's boot manager so I
can't answer whether it can boot an OS on an eSATA HD. I'll bet BING could
boot an OS on a HD connected to your...
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