On Aug 15, 5:02*pm, "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> "sid" <sidwe...@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> news:a8f183b9-60e5-4841-b575-6f9d6817f61e@xxxxxx
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> > Ran 'Fdisk' and selected option '2. *Set active partition'
> Quote:
> > It shows only one partition and at the bottom it reads:
> > "The only startable partition on Drive 1 is already set active."
>
> 1) Reboot the VM
>
> 2) As soon as the boot process starts, hit the Delete key to enter the BIOS
>
> 3) Using the arrow keys, move the the Boot tab and hit Enter to enter the
> Boot Device Priority tab
>
> What do you see in priorities 1 to 4...?
>
> It's a huge long shot, but I'm wondering whether somehow the virtual hard
> disk is no longer configured as a bootable device in the virtual machine's
> BIOS...
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVPhttp://www.markrae.net Got it to work !, Its not the bios, but that’s nice to know that a
virt bios is there.
I created a new VM and new VHD and then format /s to get a good format
and a system transfer the way that it wanted it. Then create a 2nd
temp VHD attach it to the original VM and Xcopy the whole drive to it.
Turn off that VM, attach the 2nd temp VHD to the new VM and start,
xcopy all that stuff back to the new VHD. Stop, start, boots
correctly ...
One question though, On the first xcopy from the original vhd created
by the disk wizard I got a couple of read failures, "could not read
from sector, fail, ignore, abort ... " I ignored twice and the copy
went on, and I noticed that the folder that was currently being copied
was probably not used any more. But why did that happen ? Shouldn't
the disk wizard checked all that stuff on the way in or did it just
perform a image copy ?
Thanks
Sid.