On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 07:34 +1100, James Harper wrote:
>
> Anyway, as someone else said I don't think the standard MBR code is
> smart enough to do anything sane if there is no active partition, which
> (for once :) is not the fault of Windows.
>
> > If I get a chance I'll have to play around wi
I just had to restore a w2k from a partimage image, trying to make the
partition bootable
I did not work with default MBR records, it did not work with w2k rescue
tools, it only worked with the original MBR record that was restored from the
partimage image, after another 78 MB hidden partition
> However, I didn't
> mark the partition as active (forgot about that), so maybe that is a
> required step still.
The boot process on an x86 PC goes something like:
. BIOS reads first 512 bytes of the disk (the MBR, which includes the
partition table) into memory
. BIOS begins execution of the M
Dwight Tovey wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 14:14 +1100, James Harper wrote:
Ok, this isn't exactly a Bacula issue, but Bacula is involved in our
recovery system so I hope you all will forgive the transgression.
Is it possible to do bare-metal recovery of a Windows system without
booting from
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 14:14 +1100, James Harper wrote:
> > Ok, this isn't exactly a Bacula issue, but Bacula is involved in our
> > recovery system so I hope you all will forgive the transgression.
> >
> > Is it possible to do bare-metal recovery of a Windows system without
> > booting from the Wi
> Ok, this isn't exactly a Bacula issue, but Bacula is involved in our
> recovery system so I hope you all will forgive the transgression.
>
> Is it possible to do bare-metal recovery of a Windows system without
> booting from the Windows CD to install the boot loader? I've created
a
> BartPE boo
Ok, this isn't exactly a Bacula issue, but Bacula is involved in our
recovery system so I hope you all will forgive the transgression.
Is it possible to do bare-metal recovery of a Windows system without
booting from the Windows CD to install the boot loader? I've created a
BartPE boot disk with
