Re: OT: Windows "brain transplant" redux

[J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

There is an additional wrinkle that I forgot to mention:

The old XP computer was set up (not by me) for mirrored

RAID, to a 2nd. HDD for backup.  However, I believe that

this setup is accomplished somewhere in BIOS settings,

and may not compromise anything on the boot drive

proper.  (?)  At least, that is what I'm hoping, as it would

be more easily bypassed.

  Jordan

On Friday, February 7, 2020, 5:47:40 AM PST, Paul Breeze <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PS.  There is an old trick, that your probably already know, for when
Windows XP will not boot after copying to a new drive or restoring. Boot
from a Windows 98 boot disk and then command FDISK /MBR.  This
overwrites the master boot record, forcing XP to recreate it.  In case
you should be interested I also have a copy of AVIRA's NTFSDOS which
allows you access to a hard drive formatted with NTFS from DOS.