I have an Emachine T2682. It's about 5 years old. Intel Celeron.
Phoenix bios.

I had a tried and tested ghost image of the boot partition handy when
my 80 maxtor died a few days ago. I replaced it with a 300gb maxtor. 3
partitions - 30gb c: ntfs just like the original. 15gb fat and the
rest NTFS.

I restored the boot partition with ghost. But when I attempt to boot
from drive I get Operating System Not found.

I checked pin setttings on the new drive. When I boot to windows 2003
it sees an the OS installed on C:

I now suspect it's the Bios.

Any way around this? Maybe a Phoenix bios upgrade? I have the CD with
drivers from Maxtor and they discuss something about 48 bit
comaptibility an din the bios setup I see enable 32 bit I/O(but not
48 bit).. But how can I apply those to windows or the OS if I can't
boot the OS.

Thanks for any help or information

"jc" <wildman@noclient.net> wrote in message
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I have an Emachine T2682. It's about 5 years old. Intel Celeron.
Phoenix bios.

I had a tried and tested ghost image of the boot partition handy when
my 80 maxtor died a few days ago. I replaced it with a 300gb maxtor.
3 partitions - 30gb c: ntfs just like the original. 15gb fat and the
rest NTFS.

I restored the boot partition with ghost. But when I attempt to boot
from drive I get Operating System Not found.

I checked pin setttings on the new drive. When I boot to windows 2003
it sees the OS installed on C:

I now suspect it's the Bios.
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Is the original drive dead - toast - kaput - won't power up ? If not,
new drive came with a cd, can you use that original drive to create the
new drive ? You will then have the 3 partitions and it will be bootable.
Even if part #1 is then bad - restore JUST part #1 from your backup. If
original IS dead ...

Since ghost of 5 yr old image, is it XP ? is it on partititon 1 ? 2? 3 ?
We'll have answers - but need to know more details.

Give us a layout like

1 = XP
2 = other stuff
3 = Server 2003

Could you break down the steps you took ?
Did you remove the original drive from the system ?
What version of Ghost ? Booting Ghost CD ? etc

Questions:

" I restored the boot partition with ghost."
There is no "boot partition" - do you mean Partititon #1 ?

You said:
" when I attempt to boot from drive I get Operating System Not found."

If ghosting JUST the partition, on a new drive, there is no boot info in
the MBR "BOOT AREA" .
( for all the details - see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record ). So when you power up
and PC tries to boot, it looks in MBR for info about "where to go" and
there's nothing there. No pointers.
Then you said Windows 2003 works.
Is that Server 2003 on the same drive ?
Did you boot to a menu ?

Did you just install this or ghosted ?
If same drive then "not a BIOS issue" , it is a MBR issue.

Which OS' es are on there and in which order did you install /copy them ?
Very simply: you need to install oldest OS first, otherwise, you'll get
"Operating System Not found" or another boot error message because the
LAST one installed writes the boot files.

If you copy JUST the data / image , then in the MBR there is no reference
to XP .

I used the windows 2003 server install cds and formated the the
primary partion and went through a vanilla install. I then restored
just the partion into that partion and that solved the issue.

I do think your right that because it's a partition backup and not a
disk backup the MBR was not restored.