Re: Help - Partition cannot be moved

From: XManSV (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:42:54 -0800

Bjorn, I'll bet you are right. I have got a copy of the page you supplied and
will try the solutions as soon as time permits.

I will post my results and I'm very optimistic. I think this is also probably
related to the fact that my 98 partition also will not boot. Probably a result
of a change made to Linux.

Thanks very much for the info - you have probably saved me 100 hours or more of
work!

Thanks again - you da man!

"Bjorn Landemoo" <mvp2.REMOVE@landemoo.com> wrote in message
news:8jip40da8gpkhc6q6v8h99s5b4avupn2so@4ax.com...
The reason for this logon loop is that the boot partition has got an
incorrect drive letter. This MS Knowledge Base article describes the
problem, and has five possible solutions:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321

Best regards

Bjorn 

--
Bjorn Landemoo - mvp2@landemoo.com - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
"XManSV" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>Help - inexplicable problem I cannot seem to get around!
>
>I was running two IBM Deskstar (should be named Deathstar) 75GB drives using a
>Highpoint IDE RAID controller in mirror mode.  One of the drives started to
>develop a bad spot on a data partition.  I am running multi boot, the drive is
>partitioned like so:
>
>98
>XP
>2K (this is the OS partition that I'm having the problems with and also where I
>"live")
>2K (another one for experimentation)
>Data
>Data
>
>There is also another small data drive and a Linux drive.
>
>I disconnected the mirroring so I could pull the bad drive.  Much to my
surprise
>the good drive would not boot 2K.  The bad spot appeared to be in a data
>partition so I thought I could just use TrueImage (a drive imaging program) and
>move a copy of the good 2K partition on the bad drive to the good drive.
That's
>where the problem lies.
>
>After copying the image over, when I try to boot 2K I just get caught in a
cycle
>where it says there is no paging file (and instructs me on how to make one) and
>"loading your personal settings" - over and over.  It won't boot.  Also it does
>not appear to ever show the "Applying security policy" dialog.
>
>So I thought I would try using the "duplicate the drives in preparation for
>setting up a mirror" part of the RAID configuration in an effort to get the
>partitions all moved over from the bad drive to the good drive.  I ran a drive
>fitness test sector repair on the bad drive first so I would not move
corruption
>across.  Duplicating the partition this way did the same thing.  Cycles between
>"No paging file message" and "loading your personal settings" dialog.
>
>In the initial attempts there was a page file.  I have also tried going into
the
>"source" 2K and setting the paging file to none (double checked that in the
>registry and it was blank) then using XP I actually deleted the paging file so
>that when 2K boots it would create a temporary one.  That works on the "bad"
>drive the one I am trying to copy from, but when I run the same partition image
>(image with no paging file at all) on the good drive it falls into the same
>cycle.
>
>When I used the RAID drive duplication method, before doing the dupe, I used
the
>Drive Fitness Test utility to wipe the entire target drive including the MBR.
>
>XP runs.  98 does not run but that is related to some other problem.
>
>I guess the crux of the matter is what would cause 2K to get caught in this
>cycle "no page file/loading personal settings".
>
>I am at my wits end.  It is driving me nuts.  I have many man hours into the
>setup and config of this 2K partition.  The vendor will swap the bad drive with
>me, but I have to get this 2K installation running on the good drive and I
can't
>seem to find any way to move it over that does not result in this "no page
>file/loading personal setting cycle".  Also like I said it does not seem to
ever
>show the "Applying security policy" dialog - I think that might be related
>somehow.
>
>HELP! HELP! HELP!
>
>Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
>
>XManSV
>

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