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November 25th, 2008 20:00
Loading PBR for descriptor 1...done ... ?
Long story shortened significantly. I had a Dell laptop and cloned the original drive using Norton Ghost 2003. 2 years went by. I put together a desktop from scratch and cloned the desktop boot drive to a drive that I had cloned the Dell laptop drive to years ago.
I now put that drive in my desktop (not a Dell system at ALL) and after the BIOS messages go by, the screen goes black, and "www.dell.com" appears at the top, followed by "Loading PBR for descriptor 1...done.".
From some sort of hidden Dell partition still on the drive ? It does not show up with Norton Gdisk, DOS fdisk, or partition magic. I also used a Dell utility to remove the Dell restore utilities ... (found that in the Laptop drive under Dell\Utilities\DSR). It did not find anything either.
To repeat, these messages show up on my desktop, that has nothing to do with Dell, except that the boot drive was cloned from a drive that had a Dell laptop drive cloned to it.
Any ideas on how I can get rid of these messages ?
osprey4
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November 26th, 2008 04:00
Keep in mind that Ghost can clone the entire drive, just a single partition, etc. It would seem you originally cloned the entire drive, including the Dell utility partition and perhaps the PC Restore partition, then one or both of those have been copied to the new desktop drive. Take a look at this site for more information:
Inside the Dell Utility Partition
daveswe
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November 26th, 2008 09:00
I was able to fix all my problems by booting onto the XP install CD and running the recovery console, the running the fixmbr command.
It found a "non-standard" something or other, and I chose to re-write it. The Dell/LBR messages are gone, and I can now clone from the IDE drive to the SATA using Ghost 2003 and boot off the SATA just fine.
I tried your link ... its dead ... would liek to see that though if you could repost it.
Thanks
Ooops ... just saw your link ended in .ht. Adding the m did wonders.
osprey4
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November 26th, 2008 18:00
Glad you got it working. I'm still getting used to the new format of this forum and my links aren't working quite right.
jackshack
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November 26th, 2008 21:00
Oops! Just noticed you already figured it out. Good luck!