This is what eventually fixed my problem - from
Devakumar D
Technical Consultant II
HP Global Solution Centre
David
We believe the problem seen is because DPX is not looking in the root directory of C: for the required bootfiles. Whether this is due to something that has gone wrong with the installation of the software, or due to something unusual on the OS installation, we are unable to tell. It is possible something in the boot sector is non-standard (for example, from previous virus activity). At this stage it looks like the you will probably need to reinstall the DPX software, or possibly even the OS. But we have one last option we can try.
As well as looking in the root of the boot drive, it also checks a few other locations for the required files. Copy the following boot files to the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory.
NTLDR
NTDETECT.COM
BOOT.INI
There is one final file required, BOOTSECT.DAT. This is a copy of the server├в s boot hard drive boot sector. Normally DPX just reads the actual boot sector, but if it can├в t find it for some reason (such as in this case where DPX appears to be looking in the wrong location for the files) it can check for the BOOTSECT.DAT file instead. You can do a search on the server to see if the file exists somewhere. If not, probably the easiest way to generate the file is to install the Windows Recovery Console.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216417With the Recovery Console installed, the file should be found in the C:\CMDCONS directory. Copy it to the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory with the other boot files.
As a test to see if this will help resolve the problem, you can try copying just the first three files and skip the Recovery Console step. If you perform a backup again we can check the DPTRACE file again to see if DPX was able to find the files in the newly copied location. If it does, then the additional work of installing the Recovery Console can be performed to provide DPX the last file it needs.
