i copied my xp c drive partition (using partition magic 8) to a backup drive, (sata 230gb) to use for recovery.
my plan for recovery is to:
slave the original drive...
add a 3rd hard drive with xp and partition magic on it, boot from this 3rd drive, open partition magic, and delete the c partition in the original drive that went south.
then copy the identical sized recovery partition from the backup drive, back to the original drive, putting it in the begining of the unallocated space.
then disconnect the added 3rd drive, with the xp and partition magic only on it, and reconnect the original drive, and boot.
now i would have the original drive, with the c partition copied back to it from the backup, and the 2nd drive, (backup drive) visible, if all goes ok and the system boots.
question:
will the system boot?...
what would keep it from booting, since the partition is an exact copy of the original partition?
what would i have to do to get it to boot.
#the copy of the original partition is going right back on the exact original hard drive...not a different hard drive...total copied partition size is around 38gb.
thanks much....
simdog.
