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I could see a bunch of identical entries corresponding to the recovery entries on the menu that didn't work. I also happened to find the BCD data by searching for 'Macrium Reflect System Recovery' in the registry after adding the Macrium Reflect System Recovery to the boot menu one more time.

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There is a bootmgr file on the new C:, but none on the old boot partition (now P:).Īnyone knowledgeable in WinXP and Macrium Reflect have any suggestions? I'd like to end up with a boot menu that includes one entry for Windows XP on my new HDD, and ONE entry for Macrium Recovery.Įventually, I figured out that what Macrium is doing is adding the Microsoft BOOTMGR boot loader (which comes with Windows Vista and later), and a BCD store, to use in conjunction with the NTLDR boot loader that comes with XP, and then adding an entry for the Macrium Reflect System Recovery to the bootmgr boot menu.

ntldr and and boot.ini are all present on both the new and old disks (C: drive and what is now the P: drive), so I'm not sure where the boot manager is looking for those. They have to be Macrium files rather than Windows files, because boot.ini still shows what was put there by fixboot. I don't know where to look for the configuration files that actually put the entries onto the boot menu. I've been at this for a while, now, and I'm getting frustrated. That's when I launched into trying to create it again, and started getting duplicate entries on the boot menu, with only one of them actually working. However, I wasn't seeing my boot menu when I rebooted the computer. Now I was able to successfully image the disk, at least.

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Copying it over manually didn't help, and neither did running a repair installation, so I uninstalled the trial edition from the new disk and installed the free edition again from scratch.

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When looking into that, I discovered one of the Macrium driver files (I think it was wimmount.sys) was missing on the new disk. It persistently hung trying to take a VSS snapshot. My first indication that something was not right was after I successfully booted to the new disk after converting C: to NTFS, and tried to create a backup image of it. I also think I successfully added the Macrium Recovery option to the boot menu, and I'm not sure which disk I was booted from when I did so, but I think probably I was booted from the old disk when I did.

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This is a Dell PC and didn't come with Windows installation disks, so I've been using the recommended WinPE 3.1 for my Macrium rescue media.

After cloning/copying to the new disk, I switched the SATA cables back and forth on the motherboard a couple of times, as I re-lettered the partitions and gave the ones on the old disk new volume names so I wouldn't get them confused, added a new logical drive on the new disk using AOEMI Partition Assistant, and converted the new C: partition from FAT32 to NTFS (with a contiguous MFT) so that I could create a Macrium Rescue disk. I suspect the problem has something to do with the copy of Macrium Reflect that was installed on the old HDD, which is still present (I keep finding files on the old disk that somehow didn't make it onto the new one, so I'm keeping the old disk around until I'm sure I have everything I need off of it). The next time I try again to add the recovery option, I have one more nonfunctional Macrium Recovery option added to the list - I'm up to 4 nonfunctioning ones and one functioning one, now, in addition to the nonfunctioning entry for Windows XP. I do have one functioning Macrium Recovery option on the menu, so every time this happens I can go into it, run bootfix, and reboot - whereupon I can again boot into Windows XP on the new disk, but no longer have a boot menu at all. Multiple steps later (see below), every time I try to add the Macrium Recovery option to the boot menu, I lose the ability to boot into Windows XP ( tldr missing or corrupt) and I get another nonfunctioning Macrium Recovery option added (required device is inaccessible).

I had a failing HDD on an old WinXP SP3 machine, and used Macrium Reflect 7 Free (plus SpinRite 6 and Beyond Compare) to salvage the OS and data and clone/copy them onto a new HDD.

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