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Have run full disk backup successfully. Made bootable media successfully. Get startup repair upon boot.

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It's been four days of reading the user guide and multiple backups (full disk backup), three bootable media made and multiple recoverys made with validation success. When I attempt to boot the new computer I use F12 to select CD drive to use bootable media but always get startup repair or launch Windows normally but the latter just goes to startup repair and I go around in circles.

Background: Disk 1 is Vaio laptop and target disk is Acer laptop. Using external hard drive to do backup. The objective is to duplicate existing Vaio date exactly to Acer. I did this two years ago much to Grover's exhaustion but was finally successful. I thought my update to 2013 and Plus Pack would make it easier. Gotta get this done...the Vaio is dying fast. Please help.

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First, in the other PC does the recovery CD boot? We need to check that the CD is working correctly first.

Second, in the Sony BIOS can you change the boot order and priority to CD first, this means you won't need to use the F12 option of the Sony.

I have found with other products that the F12 temporary option sometimes doesn't work whereas setting the boot options as default do work. I think it is a BIOS firmware bug.

Thank you for your reply but i'm not sure I know what to do with it. The Sony is my old computer and the Acer is the new computer. I'm not sure why I would need the bootable media for the Sony. My problem is with the Acer not responding to the bootable media so I can transfer my data from the External HD (the old Sony data) to the Acer. The Acer just reports errors and progresses to launch error clean up. Does that change your answer? If the problem is with the BIOS in either computer, I don't know how to address that.

Thank you.
Keven

We need to ensure that there is actually nothing wrong with the recovery CD you have made, so it needs to be tried in another computer. If you get exactly the same problem, we can say with some certainty that making a new CD or downloading the ISO from your account might solve the problem.

Have you changed your default boot order to CD first with high priority (if that is an option in your BIOS), as sometimes the F12 temporary boot order doesn't always work?