Dell Optiplex GX520

[TechSupp]

Hi, Just imaged an ex office PC to use on curriculum, image went on fine as normal, no errors etc but when I come to boot the PC it goes as far as getting the Dell splash screen then I just get a blank screen and a flashing cursor? Any ideas, just new it was going to play up!

[JJonas]

this can happen with a cd-rom fault - remove the drive and reboot

[TechSupp]

No sorry, DVD drive fine, was using it prior to disk wipe and image and also booted from it afterwards, just can't get it to boot from the imaged drive.

[p858snake]

Are you sure the image wasn't corrupted/was the correct one for the hardware? tried imaging again?

[TechSupp]

OK, found out what it was, when I cleared the drive and for good measure used gparted to recreate the partition etc it put a 1Mb space at the begginning if the bootable partition, which is why it didnt boot!, moved the partition so it was at the beginning and hey presto it boots :-)