After cloning a disk, booting from the old (source) disk fails
I attached an external USB drive to my machine, then I booted from Acronis True Image 10 boot media, and I cloned the internal drive to the external USB drive. (internal -> external)
I then shutdown the machine and disconnected the external USB drive. When I powered on the machine again (with the same old internal drive in it), it will not boot. No boot drive is detected. It does show correctly in the BIOS.
I have booted to Disk Director as well to see if there is some setting I can apply to the disk to make it show up as bootable again, but I have not found anything useful.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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The message is "Windows failed to start . A recent HW or SW change might be the cause. To fix the problem, insert the installation disk and choose ... repair...
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
It seems maybe the MBR is missing and corrupt and that issuing "repair" from the OS installation disk might fix the problem. I'm puzzled though that the source disk gets corrupted?
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Any chance of connecting this disk to another computer--maybe inside an external enclosure or docking unit. Then you could attempt to read its data and look at the partitions via the Disk Mangement option on the alternate computer.
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There's nothing wrong with the MBR or the boot sector code if you're getting that error. Windows has already started loading so the MBR has to be working.
Can you verify if you're using TI 10 (the older version) or TI 2010?
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I booted from the OS installation disk, and did a "repair". It said that it had detected problems with the startup settings, and offered to repair and reboot.
It was fixed in a matter of seconds and the old disk boots fine again.
Thanks for your help.
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Did it say exactly what the problem was or what it fixed?
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No, unfortunately not. It just said "has found a problem" and offered to repair and reboot.
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