IBM x30 WinXP Powerquest 7 Problem....

[slippy4twenty]

Hey all got a 2nd hand IBM x30. Drive had failed in it, replaced the drive, spent about 3 days getting windows installed. You see the IBM x30 has no floppy and no CD drive.

Replacement drive did have bad sectors already, and the other night it made the death clicks (sharp clunking). Went out and finally sprang for a new seagate 60gb 5400rpm drive (~$100).

I restored my powerquest drive image, image to the drive using a USB 2.5 drive adapter/enclosure.

Got the error message at the end
Description: Unable to complete the restore of image: E:\Temp\C_Drive.v2i. Cannot copy data from the image file to the destination.
Error E926001D: Redundant copies of the FAT do not match the active FAT.
Details: 0xE926001D

Ran chkdsk, no problems.

Put drive in laptop and got NTLDR not found.

Used Windows setup disks to get to Recovery console, ran fixboot, fixmbr and bootcfg.

FixMBR reported a problem and I let it fix it.

No change. Still get the same NTLDR error!

Tips and suggestions please?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I have no CD drive for the system. Nor do I think it can boot from CD over USB (I do however have a USB floppy drive that it will boot from.) It will not boot from USB memory stick either. Thanks again!

 

[slippy4twenty]

Jst thought I'd let you all know the reply I got over at arstechnica.....or rather garnered from this thread. Doesn't solve WHY my nice image doesn't work right but gives an AWESOME solution to installing on a system that doesn't have a cd/floppy drive.

Ars No CD/Floppy XP Install Linky

Basically....quoting indigo258

Assuming that removing the Hard Drive from your HTPC isnt too hard, you can install XP using the following steps:

? Remove Hard drive from your HTPC and place in your main PC. Lets assume Windows gives it Drive Letter D:
? Assuming your CD-ROM is drive E: and the Windows XP Disc is inserted, issue the following command from either a command prompt or the run menu.

E:\I386\winnt32.exe /syspart: /tempdrive: /makelocalsource /noreboot


? Once that is finished, shut down your Main PC and place the drive back in the HTPC. Power it up and watch Windows install on the HTPC. Smile

/Indigo258

Just gotta snag my original XP disc back from a friend that was using it for drivers and I should be in business.

Anyone have any tips for the powerquest part of things? Should I just give up and use ghost?

Thanks all! Enjoy the info!

edit: no emoticons

 

[slippy4twenty]

Well, I've tried all that. Absolutely no luck. Anyone else have any suggestions? It's not even giving a NTLDR error. Just gives a black screen with a cursor in the upper left.

Ideas?

 

[tiap]

You can connect to a network copy the i386 foldr to thr x30 and install xp from that folder. Then you can go to ibm website and let it autodetect the model and downlaod all the frivers etc.