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makeamistake

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my board is a GA8905 PA UD 3H with Phenom 11 2x 560 and I'm running - ugh - Vista. I cloned my hdd using Acronis. I did not erase the old hard drive and I did not remove it before booting and ended up with scrambled eggs.
Ended up with too many problems so reloaded Vista. I'm not sure the existing problems are serious ones but slows the boot and are aggravating.
1. Device manager shows 2 processors. Bios shows correct and I could deactivate in Device Manager but would this solve the problem or reappear down the road as a serious problem? Firmware is not my thing so don't laugh at me.
2. I did not partition the new hard drive but the os was smart enough to do so for the recording of the old info. However it shows up as a separate hard drive that is too small and I have a constant error message to correct it plus at boot up I have to designate booting too c drive. I might be able to solve this by booting to dvd???
I did refresh the c moss battery but with no results. There is most probably an answer in Bios but if so, not obvious since I'm back a decade in knowledge.
3. Can I redirect the old copy to a secondary backup hard drive to rid me of the 'running out of space' message and if so, how?
Sorry to name so many problems but they are all related and if my luck (knowledge) changed, one answer might solve all.
thanks for anyone wanting to tackle this one
 
welcome to the forums.first go to start.in the search box type in msconfig in the dialog box under the boot tab your OS should be there.click once on it and on the bottom make it set as default.after this open a CMD and type in sfc /scannow
 
Let's break this down a little:

1. So you have a new hard drive? What is it?

2. How many drives did you have before?

3. Do you have a dual-core processor? If so, than two CPU's in device manager is normal.

4. Partition - If the hard drive was not partitioned, no data would be written to it. So it is partitioned.

5. Are you running now on the new hard drive, or the old one?

6. Open up My Computer and tell us which drive is full.

7. When you ran Acronis, did you start it at bootup or from Within Windows?
 
thank you, in response
1. the new hdd is a 2 T Seagate
2. were 1 T Hitachi, 500 g WD backup
3. I believe the x2 designates multiple core, not positive. However I do not remember multiple processors being named in Device Manager, wouldn't swear to it and am often wrong. This is a little off the wall and may not pertain but I am running 4 g ram rather than 8. Would it change this or just disallow Raid?
4. agreed, however the partition is a 1.6 T versus 3 1/2 g
5. old hdd removed, it had same os on it which caused the original problem
6. At present I have listed in My Computer c: 1.6 of 1.8 T free; d: 1.+- of 3.6 g free; f 438 of 465 g free
7. within Windows
 
the 1.+ m of 3.6 g
this is basically a storage area on c for old info that was stored at reload of the os. The problem lies with boot up. Boot up does not know whether to boot from this little portion of c or the larger portion containing the system - does that make sense. My tech vocab is limited.
 
I think the problem lies in having several partitions/ drives connected during the clone. Try doing the clone with just the old drive and your new drive installed. If that fails, you may need to do a fresh install on the new drive
 
You're right denis280, it works and thanks. Even taught my daughter a new one and she taught computer at the state U!
As to out of space message, solved that by deleting the files. After causing the disaster I wouldn't want to chance using them anyhow.
Thanks a bunch, you're hot!
 
makeamistake said:
You're right denis280, it works and thanks. Even taught my daughter a new one and she taught computer at the state U!
As to out of space message, solved that by deleting the files. After causing the disaster I wouldn't want to chance using them anyhow.
Thanks a bunch, you're hot!
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Good stuff.
 
makeamistake said:
You're right denis280, it works and thanks. Even taught my daughter a new one and she taught computer at the state U!
As to out of space message, solved that by deleting the files. After causing the disaster I wouldn't want to chance using them anyhow.
Thanks a bunch, you're hot!
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Very welcome😉
 
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