Using Acronis 8 cloned a Win98 disk & clone with not boot

Tom,

Try connecting the source drive via USB and connecting the new drive internally. This is necessary on a number of laptops due to drive geometry issues.

Well gee, I messed up, some how I chose incorrectly and wiped out the source. It cloned and I have the information on the destination disk, but it will not boot up in the laptop. Can I connect to another system to make it bootable?

If everything is on the cloned drive, you can still try cloning it back. The geometry problem doesn't stop the data from being placed on the drive. It just makes it where the computer can't boot it because it doesn't find the data where it looks for it.

Clone back to the original drive (when installed in laptop) and see if it boots okay. If it works, you can just try again with the new drive.

Making a backup image of the cloned drive wouldn't be a bad idea, especially since the original got wiped.

Thanks for your help MudCrab, but still no luck. I know what I did wrong, clicked on deleted the old drive after cloning, but cloning it back didn't work. Both drives have all of the information on them, but niether one will boot up in the laptop. This is a FAT 16 Windows 98 system and I think Acronis 8 never transfered the MBR to the cloned drive. So now it is lost unless I can restore it to either drive. We are talking about a 3GB being cloned to a 6GB harddrive that I really need the software and programs on it to communicate with some of our older systems. Any ideas on restoring the MBR on these drives?

Thanks again!

iirc to restore the mbr you will need to boot from a win 98 start up floppy disk and type in at the A: prompt fixmbr then press enter.