cloned hard drive.. how do i get windows to work on it?

[yhelothar]

I cloned a windows hard drive. When I start up from the clone drive, it still loads everything from the original drive.
I tried changing the system drive letter to the original system drive. It does nothing.
%systemroot% and %userprofile% is locked onto the original drive. It keeps pointing to that original drive even when I set the original drive to be Y:

How do I set the original location of %systemroot% and %userprofile% ???

 

[MplsBob]

I think you and I are probably asking the same question, or nearly so. My message is listed just after after yours.

I hope you, and I, get an answer that works.

I do have a question: What kind of drives (PATA or SATA) are involved in this?

Also, what version of Windows are you using?

 

[yhelothar]

Changing drive letters will do nothing. This is the fundamental question to this situation.
I'm actually going from SCSI to PATA RAID, both on controller cards.

I've tried this over a year ago from PATA to SATA RAID. Ran into the same problem.

 

[Valkerie]

OPTIONS:

-repair windows

-set as secondary drive, extract necessary data, erase it, clean wipe out, clean install

-restore it with old junk (risky/unstable OS environment)

I'd go with these if I were you, otherwise, you can keep fiddling, you may come up with something.