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[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the problem isn't on the other end of the phone.

I just spent all day going back and forth between a laptop and my cloning workstation, trying to figure out why multiple drives i has wiped and cloned would not boot. Primary partition is active, using fdisk's master boot repair doesn't fix it; and when i use my custom boot floppy, i get to the desktop fine. What in $deity's name is wrong with these things?

Duhrr. Have to format them in the laptop as c:\ under dos; as formatting them as d:\ in the cloning station doesn't give me the necessary boot files. I'm an idiot. (Although in my defense, it's been 8 months since i've had to clone new field units.)

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[jecook]

From what I understand, some Western Digital drives have issues where they won't boot, but the data can be accessed just fine.

You can format a non A, b or C lettered drive as bootable, you just need to use the /S switch when formatting them...

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Actually, it occurs to me hours later, that i could just do a "sys a: c:" command on the already-cloned drives. (thereby eliminating the need to format and re-clone them.)

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

What in $deity's name

you > me.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

*rolls you up*

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

*flails*

*makes odd noises*

*is covered in buildings and giant squid*

[entr0ki.livejournal.com]

"Clone field units" is the coolest phrase ever. It's so Evil-Overlord sounding.

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

I know. Ain't it great?