Recovery partitions and bootsect.dat

[George00]

In another thread I asked about making a recovery partition using WinPE - which I got working.

However, it seems that when I make an image of the hard drive containing this working recovery partition, and deploy it to another PC (I use Acronis Snap Deploy for this, as it can multicast), it doesn't work. I get either a flashing cursor or a HAL.dll missing error, depending on which partition is active (but neither successfully boot WinPE)

To fix it I need to re-install the recovery console to re-generate the bootsect.dat file, as described in a guide somewhere on dual-booting WinPE.

Is there some way around this? Why is this, anyway?

Edited November 16, 2007 by George00

[cdob]

bootsect.dat is a copy of partition boot code.

You get different bootsect.dat at different partitions.

Don't copy bootsect.dat across different hard disks.

Partition and format a hard disk. Extract boot code next.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=53366

dd, dsok, bootpart and mkbt are usable applications.

A default boot code load file ntldr.

You may change extracted boot code.

nt2peldr is mentioned. This changed boot code load file name peldr.

[jaclaz]

If you want, you can try (at your own risk, of course ) this little batch of mine:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/MakeBScmd-...EASE-t2362.html

Latest version is here:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=2362&st=20

jaclaz