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Cloned Vista isn't recognized. Help!!!

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Sandan

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I originally installed Vista through XP onto a different physical drive. I set it up as a Dual boot. I got a new drive and cloned Vista onto it using True Image 10. Everything shows up on the new drive but I can't boot into Vista. The Boot option screen comes up and when I highlight Vista it seems to try to initialize then it reboots. Could this have something to do with at my original instal a boot record on the XP drive doesn't recognize the new drive. Any suggestions on how to fix this.
 
You should be able to put the Vista DVD in your drive and boot to it and select repair instead of install. It should detect the error and offer to correct it.
 
I tried the repair but it didn't work. I wonder if this is because Vista was on an IDE drive and my new one it is cloned on is SATAII. My thought is that the boot record on C is looking for the IDE....Not sure
 
Is there a chance that the new partition after cloning is NOT marked as Active? Boot up with True Image and check if Vista's PRIMARY partition is active.
 
With Acronis 10, you have to also backup and then restore the MBR of the disk with Vista. After that, you may still have to do a repair, as others have said.

 
Originally posted by: BehindEnemyLines
Is there a chance that the new partition after cloning is NOT marked as Active? Boot up with True Image and check if Vista's PRIMARY partition is active.
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When I installed the new drive I formatted and partitioned. I made the Vista partition active at that time. Acronis still shows it as active. The MBR is what has me confused. I originally installed Vista through XP which was on a separate physical drive. I think the MBR is on the other drive where XP still resides. I think that needs edited but I don't know how to do so.
 
Does Vista have an option in the startup menu not to automatically reboot, so you can see the error?


Originally posted by: BehindEnemyLines
Is there a chance that the new partition after cloning is NOT marked as Active? Boot up with True Image and check if Vista's PRIMARY partition is active.
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That wouldn't cause the computer to reboot.
 
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