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Hard Drive Upgrade glitch Pdigmking 06-23-2008
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Posted by BillW50 on June 23, 2008, 5:18 pm
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 Pdigmking typed on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:22:26 GMT:
> Ok, I found this program, MBR wizard. I need to make sure I've got
> this command right however. Here's what the instructions say:
>
> The Repair option is designed to replace the boot loader with a
> standard Windows XP boot loader. The only parameter currently
> available for /Repair is 1, which indicates Windows XP, additional
> options will be available in future versions to support Vista and
> others as required. Making sure the Disk=x option is set correctly
> (you don't want to repair the wrong disk), use the following command
> to perform the repair:
>
> MBRWiz /Repair=1 /Disk=0
>
> I'm not sure of course which disk is which. Is "0" my current "C"
> drive? Or is that "1"?
>
> Any thoughts?

Well the one that needs the MBR is in the external drive right? That
would be disk=1 then. Disk=0 would be the C drive which is bootable
already. If the Toshiba has a special MBR and won't work with the
standard MBR, you have to copy everything all over again. But use the
bootable option this time.

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Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/1GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (60GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)


Posted by John Doue on June 23, 2008, 7:35 pm
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 Pdigmking wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital HD
> that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to copy the
> drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy appeared to go well
> although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the new drive and fired up the
> computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating System" or something like that.
> The jumper setting is on default (no jumpers) which is master drive. In
> setup the drive is recognized, it just won't boot up. Connections are
> good. Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul
I am not sure what Migrate is about, but definitely use the Acronis True
Image function. 11hrs ... whoa ! Something wrong here anyway!

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John Doue

Posted by GG Willikers on June 23, 2008, 10:52 pm
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John Doue wrote:
> Pdigmking wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital
>> HD that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to
>> copy the drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy appeared
>> to go well although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the new drive
>> and fired up the computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating System" or
>> something like that. The jumper setting is on default (no jumpers)
>> which is master drive. In setup the drive is recognized, it just
>> won't boot up. Connections are good. Any ideas?
>> TIA
>>
>> Paul
> I am not sure what Migrate is about, but definitely use the Acronis True
> Image function. 11hrs ... whoa ! Something wrong here anyway!
>
YOu might want to defrag and resize your partition on the original drive.

Do some housecleaning before you image.

CC Cleaner and defraggler here :

http://www.ccleaner.com/
http://www.defraggler.com/

then use Acronis to resize the partition.
then run your image transfer.

Posted by Barry Watzman on June 24, 2008, 2:03 am
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This often happens with Windows. Windows knows what drive it's
installed on and if you "copy" or "clone" it to a new drive (Ghost,
Drive Image, Acronis, etc.) the new drive may not work (won't boot).
But it doesn't always happen, only sometimes. And I don't know why
sometimes but not always.


Pdigmking wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital HD
> that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to copy the
> drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy appeared to go well
> although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the new drive and fired up the
> computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating System" or something like that.
> The jumper setting is on default (no jumpers) which is master drive. In
> setup the drive is recognized, it just won't boot up. Connections are
> good. Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul
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Posted by BillW50 on June 28, 2008, 3:45 pm
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Barry Watzman typed on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:03:06 -0400:
> This often happens with Windows. Windows knows what drive it's
> installed on and if you "copy" or "clone" it to a new drive (Ghost,
> Drive Image, Acronis, etc.) the new drive may not work (won't boot).
> But it doesn't always happen, only sometimes. And I don't know why
> sometimes but not always.
>
> Pdigmking wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a toshiba A105 with an 80gig HD. I have a new Wester Digital
>> HD that I'm trying to swap in there. I used Acronis Migrate easy to
>> copy the drive, and I used this USB connection kit. The copy
>> appeared to go well although it took 11 hours. When I plugged the
>> new drive and fired up the computer I get: "Unable To Run Operating
>> System" or something like that. The jumper setting is on default (no
>> jumpers) which is master drive. In setup the drive is recognized,
>> it just won't boot up. Connections are good. Any ideas?

Barry, under the Recovery Console command (Windows XP install disc). The
following two commands should fix that problem.

FIXMBR C:
FIXBOOT C:

If you have a HD larger than 130GB and you don't have a Windows XP with
any Service Packs install CD, don't try the above. As it probably will
corrupt the HD. It can be fixed, but what a PIA.

BOOTCFG /rebuild

I am not sure what the BOOTCFG command all does. but that might help
too.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/1GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (60GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)


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