Restored to new hard drive - then Blue Screen
My home PC had a hard disk failure last week. I just happen to do a complete backup using True Image 11 on it that morning. So I figure no big deal. My system contained a secondary, larger hard drive with just stuff on it. I took the bad disk out of my system, made the larger hard drive my boot disk. Then booted up with the recovery disk. To my surprise the new c:\ drive wasn't there, I had to do an "Add Disk". Ok, got by that.
Started the recovery. Told it to go with the MBR and the main partition (I wasn't sure about restoring the MBR). After about 6 hours (wow) the PC came up no problem. I then looked at the disk in Windows and noticed that the new larger drive is now the exact size of the older smaller disk. About 100 MB were now unallocated. OK, why wouldn't the recovery just automatically resize??
But now the real problem. All of the sudden I am getting blue screens with different error codes. I can't even back up the new disk, it almost blue screens right away. There is no driver conflict or anything else I can't see would be wrong. Tried a file backup and now getting bad sector errors. So I should do a check disk but bad sectors shouldn't cause a blue screen, right???
Any ideas anyone??
Thanks.
What version of Windows is involved? Were you booted from the rescue cd when you performed the restore? I am assuming that your reference to version 11 is the old version 11 of several years ago???
If the suggestion by Scott does not succeed, here are some other options.
A disk restore using version 11 will usually produce a disk with the same size as the source. Any partition size changes needed must be done by the user If the restore was to a larger disk, the partitions will be restored to the same size with the remaining space as unallocated.
100MB free space is so small, it is not worth bothering about. On the other hand, if the unallocated space is 100 gigabytes, that is a different issue and a resize needed.
Whatever the free space, this can easily be adjusted by several methods.
If using Windows 7, this can be adjusted from inside Windows using the Disk Management option.
If using XP or XP Pro, you will need to use a disk utility such Acronis Disk Director or the free Partition Wizard.
You can use these to resize the partition. The Partition Wizard is a download which must be burnt to CD and then boot from the Partition Wizard bootable CD to access the resize option.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
Another method is to perform the restore again and make your own partition size adjustments. To use this method, click on my signature link (yellow)below and check out index item #3 -B.
I am not sure of your exact procedures used, but if you did not do this, the below is something you might want to try.
New disk as the only disk installed (except for an enternal containing your backup) and use the same connectors as the original disk.
Boot from the Rescue CD and checkmark the disk as the what is to be restored.
Checkmarking the disk will not give you an opportunity to changes sizes but that can be handled as referenced above.
When you get to the screen where you select the new target disk, also select the "Recover disk signature" if such an option is provided (old v11 may not).
After completion, shutdown and remove all but the new disk.
Reboot with only the new disk attached.
If it boots properly, use it for a few days and see if your blue screen problem is fixed.
Later, any partition size issues can be fixed.