Cloning new disk left me with no boot
I cloned my original internal 2.5 notebook 5400rpm 500gb drive to my new 7200 rpm 500gb drive via a usb2 SATA enclosure.
The internal drive had three bootable partitions organised with DualBoot Pro: the Dell diagnostics, Windows7, and Windows7 set up for music.
However, when I swapped disks over and rebooted although my bootscreen still gave me the two Windows7 choices (Dell diagnostics were available via key stroke) it just reported a boot error and rebooted, with a message that I had to run W7's repair program. This gave me the W7 partition back, but had wiped my Music partition.
I still have the original disk in the enclosure, so I could clone it again (unfortunately I would have to do it USB to internal, as the old drive won't come out of the enclosure because its too tight !), but why hadn't the boot stuff been cloned too ?
TIA
If the first attempt was with the original drive installed internally and the new drive in the USB enclosure, go ahead and try it the other way. Often, the best results are when the new drive is installed internally when the cloning is processed. This is especially true if the computer uses different drive geometry for the internal drive.
I'm trying that very thing just now.
It's the waiting that gets you................ ;-)