On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:25:38 -0700 (PDT), sid <sidwelle@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:
>On Aug 15, 5:02*pm, "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote:
>> "sid" <sidwe...@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>
>> news:a8f183b9-60e5-4841-b575-6f9d6817f61e@xxxxxx
>> Quote:
>> > 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. If you xcopy files you still need to run the SYS command on the drive
in order for it to boot. Copying boot files does not make an HD
bootable, only format /s or SYS C: will do that.
--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.