After cloning a disk, other disks in system cause Win7 to fail boot

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Hi,

This is a little strange. I used Acronis to clone a drive. That operation went "kind of ok".

There were three other SATA drives in the system at the time of the cloning but which should have not been involved in the operation. Now, when two out of the three other disks are in the system at boot, Win7 won't boot and the screen has a half a dozen or so unintelligible characters on it and the system freezes. One disk was not affected.

However, when I plug in the drives after the system has booted, explorer sees that all of the data that is supposed to be there is really there. I suspect something in the boot sector of the two drives in question has been damaged.

Or, is it something ridiculously strange like damage to the MBR table on the main drive??

Rather than reformat the drives and wipe out perfectly good data, there must be a simple solution to this problem. Suggestions?

Thank You
Tom

Fr, 11/11/2011 - 04:40
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Tom,

When all of the drives are connected and you try booting, are you sure the Windows 7 drive is set as the booting drive? Sometimes the BIOS will change the order when different/changed drives are detected.

Is one of the problem drives the original drive that was cloned?

If you boot either of the problem drives by themselves do you get the same unintelligible characters and system freeze?

Fr, 11/11/2011 - 18:35
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