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Cloned Hard Drive will not boot.

edro

edro

Lifer
I just got a new 500gb 2.5" SATA drive.
I used HDClone (Free edition) to clone my hard drive (160gb) while in Windows to the 500gb drive using a USB enclosure.
It completed after a few hours without errors.

I swapped in the new drive into my laptop's drive bay and it just gets a blinking while cursor after the BIOS flash screen.

Any ideas?

It seems strange that it can clone the main drive while in Windows, with the system running. Aren't these tools usually used in a DOS environment so the source drive isn't being accessed by Windows?

THanks for any help!😱
 
There's a good chance all that is needed is to toggle the primary partition of the clone to bootable. Most imaging programs make the clone image non-bootable. I think the reason is that if you boot up with two active Windows partitions (ie, one on one drive & one on another drive), you will end up messing up the boot loader for the original (ie, non-clone).
 
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I have experienced blinking cursor result before in different experiments with acronis.The fix in my cases were fixmbr command using the windows install disk recovery console on a stand alone drive.
 
backup exec system restore cd and its norton equivalent have restore MBR and make bootable (you don't want to use this command if you are restoring a 2nd ,3rd or 4th partition). you usually do one partition at a time.

so yeah i've forgotten the switch and went dammit i just wasted 2 hours - start over
 
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