My Flight Sim hard drive will not boot. When I boot the Windows XP system disk and look at the partition it says:Partition1

Hi Barry,What hardrive are you trying to use, old or new drive? Is this the drive you used to clone the new drive? Did the cloning software change the drive format from DOS to OS2 format?If the cloning software made changes, see if it has utilities for recovery.If the drive is the new drive, use the partitioning function of WinXP to delete the OS2 (non-DOS) partition so that you have no partitions on the new drive. I always make multiple partitions on my hardrives. I also always make a 2GB partition for the virtual memory area (usually drive D:). You need to decide on the number and size of the partitions.You can also repartition the old hardrive, but you may lose everything on the drive. Some partitioning software make new partitions from existing partitions for their own purposes and this may be the case for the cloning software.W. Sieffert

Hi Mr. Sieffert,I am trying to recover data from the OLD drive to get some of my files off of it. Do you thnk the Drive Image utility changed the partition? I went ahead did a clean install on my 120 GB and re-installed all the software. Now I want to some of the files off the old drive, and I can see all the files from the repair utility, but it won't let me copy any of the files even to a floppy.Any ideas? I'll check the utilities and see if they can help.Barry

Hi Barry,The cloning software may have made changes. How many partitions did you have on the old drive? If only the one partition (C:), then you need to see if the cloning software have utilities to get the info back.W. Sieffert

Hi Mr. Sieffert,I went ahead and re-installed the OS, FS 2004, and all my FS stuff.The drive is running just fine after doing the re-install.The cloning software or even XP doesn't like this process. I don't think there is a better way to do this.It would be OK if you were cloning the exact same drive.But doing an upgrade with different Hard Drive hardware caused the problem. It may even be hit and miss depending on the drive.Thanks again!Barry

I did a search on the cloning software. I read in a post that it wasn't compatible with WinXP SP1 and later.Did you partition your new drive at all, e.g., C:, D:, E:, etc.? What type format did you use, e.g., FAT32, NTFS?W. Sieffert