DD11 - Missing OS on Cloned Drive

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The source disk is Win XP Pro 32 bit SP3. The destination was previously cloned and working with Migrate Easy Safe.

DD11 was booted off a Win PE DVD. I selected Disk 1 as the source, Disk 2 as the target, Select Disk Clone operation, Selected As Is, and selected Copy NT Signature. I committed the procedure after reviewing the destination layout.

At the end of copy operations the PC powered down on its own. Is this normal?

I removed the source disk and swapped the destination disk in its place. I restarted the PC and I get the missing OS message.

I fired up the DD11 of the DVD and looked at the disk layout and the boot volume is correctly identified. I assume DD11 left the primary partition active. I on a cursory inspection did not see any property method to indicate whether it still was. It appeared to have the correct color as before and it still was identified as an MBR disk.

I restored the disks to their original positions and repeated the process but the same PC shutdown occurred at the end of copying and removing the source and putting the target in its place again showed the missing OS message.

I copied to it again booting Migrate Easy Safe off of a boot CD and all worked well.

(My HDs are SATA drives in cartridges seating in nests and are easy to swap. I do this every couple of months and had no problems with Migrate Easy.)

Any suggestions?

Wed, 06/23/2010 - 08:04
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A cloned disk boots correctly if DD11 is run from within Win XP. If run from within either bootable media options (I have WinPE2 and the new download linked Linux disk) the cloned disk will not boot. The case I started with Tech support has been updated.

There are times I will need to clone non-O/S disks so this is not acceptable.

DD11 also appears to have moved a deliberate deliberately unallocated small space after the active C: volume adding it to the previously unallocated space at the end of the physical disks. If this means volumes in the extended partition following the primary were moved this would not be satisfactory as this might interfere w ith some copy protection schemes. All cloning was specified As Is and Keep signature.

Sun, 06/27/2010 - 00:57