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Hi Leon,
I've had problems like this after a clone rebuild.
I've got a few Acronis programs that let you boot to a CD and then search the disk to see what data is on it, and where the partitions are and if they are primary or not.
The OS has to be on a primary disk or at least the MBR.
I've had a problem fixed by just making the disk primary and it booted up.
Another problem can be the MBR and sometimes the pointers to the MBR.
When the disk is initiated the in the very first few bites are pointers to the MBR. If this gets corrupted then the disk keeps spinning and won't find the MBR.
It could also the MBR is copied from one disk to another but the partition tables are different.
It's trying to find C/windows which isn't at the right address.
I've manually written the partiton tables to look at the right place once when I got really stuck and it worked.
I normally use partition manager for this and Acronis programs for backup, repair and clone disks
Good luck.
Cheers
Andy.
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