Copying system files problems

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03-11-2004
Dark Nemesis

Copying system files problems

I'm having problems with windows, it's been bugging me alot, my 700MB drive is the favored dumping grounds for temporary files for any of my programs that use such a feature (even if I tell them to put the temp stuff somewhere else). Tha'ts one reason for switching, anyother is that it's a slow drive. Eitherway, I've used the DOS sys command (sys C:\ D:) when both drives were in, and I've hard-copied the C: drive onto the D: drive, but when D: becomes master I get a non-bootable disk error.

Recap in english: Small drive contents put into big drive, big-drive has everything it should need to be a boot disk, but still doesn't act like a boot disk.
03-12-2004
ober

Have you installed an OS on the D drive? My bet is that you don't have a master boot record on the drive (something that occurs during OS installation).
03-12-2004
Dark Nemesis

C: drive is my current boot drive, and everything that is on c: is now also on d:.
03-14-2004
RobR

So you formatted drive d using the /s switch, correct? Or did you just copy files across and do a sys command?
03-14-2004
Dark Nemesis

Haven't formatted the D: drive
I just used a sys command.
03-14-2004
XSquared

When you copy over all of the files, it doesn't copy over the MBR, which your PC needs to boot. I'm not sure how to write the MBR from Windows, though.
03-15-2004
RobR

Format d: /s
03-16-2004
manofsteel972

Is the bootable flag set

Have you used fdisk and checked to see if the disk was made bootable. I forgot a couple of times when I installed Linux.
03-21-2004
Dark Nemesis

I've looked at fdisk, but I don't know what area tells me if it is bootable, I have primary dos partition active on the d: drive, but can't make an extended dos partition, due to a lack of space...
03-22-2004
RobR

Quote:

Originally posted by RobR
Format d: /s
03-22-2004
Waldo2k2

Quote:

Originally posted by RobR
Format d: /s
03-24-2004
Dark Nemesis

Won't that wipe the disk though?