EaseUS

[McCormack]

I bought a used computer with Win7 Professional installed on it, and this is my first experience with 7. I'm trying to run my EaseUS cloning CD on computer start up to clone the 7 OS to an external hard drive, but when I start my computer it bypasses the EaseUS software and goes directly to Windows. I've got administrator privileges and have the CD's autoplay enabled, but it won't play. Once the computer is running I can click on my CD drive and it will show the EaseUS files. Any ideas?

 

[Victorian Gray]

I bought a used computer with Win7 Professional installed on it, and this is my first experience with 7. I'm trying to run my EaseUS cloning CD on computer start up to clone the 7 OS to an external hard drive, but when I start my computer it bypasses the EaseUS software and goes directly to Windows. I've got administrator privileges and have the CD's autoplay enabled, but it won't play. Once the computer is running I can click on my CD drive and it will show the EaseUS files. Any ideas?

You need to make sure that your computer has your cd/dvd drive set as the 1st boot device in your BIOS.

 

[Engineer]

You will need to go into BIOS and change your boot order. Move the DVD drive in front of the current boot drive.

Another option is to see if F11 or F12 works before booting - i.e. brings up a boot manager that lets you select which drive to boot from. Try hitting F11 or F12 multiple times before the boot (start pressing during the BIOS splash screens).

If it doesn't boot from one of those two, are you sure that the CD is bootable?

Edit: While typing my wall of text, I was beaten to the post! Doh!!

 

[McCormack]

Good call guys... I changed the boot order and was able to run my clone program. The only odd thing was that my BIOS (Dell Optiplex 330) wouldn't let me set my CD drive as #1 and my HDD drive as #2 - it would always default back to the HDD being #1 and the CD being #2 - so I set the CD as the only bootable drive and ran my clone program, and then when I was done I went back into the BIOS and used the default HDD #1/CD#2 setting. Oh well, 220, 221, whatever it takes.

Thanks for the help.

P.S. Gray, I really like your William Penn quote. :>)

 

[Victorian Gray]

Good call guys... I changed the boot order and was able to run my clone program. The only odd thing was that my BIOS (Dell Optiplex 330) wouldn't let me set my CD drive as #1 and my HDD drive as #2 - it would always default back to the HDD being #1 and the CD being #2 - so I set the CD as the only bootable drive and ran my clone program, and then when I was done I went back into the BIOS and used the default HDD #1/CD#2 setting. Oh well, 220, 221, whatever it takes.

Thanks for the help.

P.S. Gray, I really like your William Penn quote. :>)

Glad you figure it out.

It's an old tagline from my FidoNet days back in the late 80's thru mid 90's. Don't remember where I first saw it but it resonated and I've used it ever since.

In case you wonder what FidoNet was/is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet