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Posted by BillW50 on July 8, 2008, 2:55 pm
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> Greetings,
>
> I had posted earlier regarding problems I was having updgrading a HD
> on a Toshiba laptop. I would do the copy, and then it wouldn't boot.
> I think the problem was the program I was using to make the cloned
> drive. I was using an old Acronis Migrate Easy. At the suggestion
> of John Doue I got Acronis True Image, less than an hour later I had
> my new hard drive installed and working perfectly. I had to create a
> bootable CD with True image on it, boot with the CD (press F12 on a
> Toshiba to get the boot options, then select "CD/DVD"), and run the
> program that way. For some reason the program wouldn't work if I
> tried to run it from XP, although it says is should work. I also ran
> a fix disk on the source drive (the short version, not the full
> search with fix for bad sectors) prior to cloning the disk. And
> since I had tried and failed with the new drive, I had to completely
> erase it again before it would accept all the new data from the
> source drive. I used the automatic mode on True Image, but you have
> to watch the prompts, you need to select "delete any existing
> partitions" on the target drive, it doesn't necissarily default to
> this. Fortunately you can go back and check all your settings as
> many times as you want (depending your level of anxiety, I did it
> twice) before comitting to the process.
>
> I just have to say, it is amazing that you can upgrade computer like
> this for less than $150.00. A lot of people go out and buy new
> computers just because they want bigger HDs. If you already have the
> program, and the USB thingie, all you need is the HD, and they are
> getting so cheap it's rediculous. I paid $69.00 for a 160gig at
> Micro Center.
>
> Paul.
Hi Paul! I explained earlier in your older threads of why this happens.
BillW50 typed on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:40:04 -0500:
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> I believe I now know why. Check this out. Apparently once Windows
> sees the original partition and the cloned partition at the same
> time, you are now screwed.
>
> http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm#method3
>
> Although what is also interesting is if you planned on having the
> botched cloned partition to be drive C, using Win9x FDISK /MBR will
> fix this problem. While Windows 2000/XP FIXMBR will not.
--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)
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