Problem with the hard drive movie/clone

Refer to: I did it the clone, E:\ to C:\ - boot. ini and of course the boot sector was lost. It also re-sized my hard drive to 10gig (as E:\ was) but in partition magic it showed it as 30gig. . .

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Refer to: http://www.ntcompatible.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26008
 
I did it the clone, E:\ to C:\ - boot.ini and of course the boot sector was lost.
 
It also re-sized my hard drive to 10gig (as E:\ was) but in partition magic it showed it as 30gig....
 
Anyway, when rebooting, i got something like "ntldir cannot be detected" or something, i cant remember offhand (having to write this from college)....
 
Any ideas on what to do?
 
I did go into the repair cons and do a fixmbr but that didnt help....
 
I'm going to reinstall XP onto C:\ and then have a go at it again, but i need another working way
 
Hopefully someone can help!
 
Thanks a lot!
 
-Acid

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ntldr is what makes xp and other nt's bootyou can see the file in your root directory. As for how to get it working again i am not sure since i would have sugested the mbr thing that you allready did.

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What if i installed XP on C:\ fresh, copied that file along with the boot.ini to my backup/program file hard drive, then copy it back over to c:\ after i clone?
 
Think it would work?
 
-acid

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in the console you should also try "fixboot"
"fixmbr" just does the master boot record, "fixboot" does the initial boot files.

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Yeah i did that, i did that first then fixmbr, and still ntldir error or something of the sort.... very fustrating... i am considering copying over the ntloader and stuff after i do the clone.... i wish i know what files exactly are the boot files required