Hard Drive "lost" and how do I "Clone" to an external HDD?
Hello All,
I would like to clone the hard drive of a Toshiba Laptop, including the Operating System(Vista Premium), onto a new WD hard drive being used presently as a usb backup drive. The WD backup drive will then be installed into the laptop, whereas the original Toshiba HDD will now become the backup drive or redundant drive in case of crash.
1) Western Digital has a free version of "Acronis True Image 2013" but it would never load properly? It would just remove itself at the end of the install process.
2) I then installed the trial version of "Acronis Migrate Easy" from the Acronis website. It seems to be more what I need, a) clones a HDD, including the Operating System, b) you have the option of leaving the original HDD in tact and using it as a backup drive...
I did just that but now have two issues.
A) Upon booting from the external HDD (testing) I got the error "BootMGR is missing". The process was aborted.
B) I then installed the external HDD into the laptop, but upon booting up got an error message such as "No bootable device/media detected". The process was aborted.
C) None of my computers now recognize my WD usb hard drive? Nothing happens upon hooking it up now. I therefore have no way of seeing what is on it nor in reformatting it?
Help Please. Thanks, Ralph
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