Cannot change disks with backup restore
I want to move my C: drive to a new disk which is larger. If I backup with Acronis 2014 to a USB drive and then restore to a new drive I get this message when booting the new drive "missing or corrupted file in Windows root System32\hal.dll. I have tried cloning to the new drive with same result. I have installed a brand new target drive also with the same result.
I have tried the bootrec options (fixmbr, etc.) and bootsect options on the targeted drive after restoring and still get the same result. I also tried taking a disk image with win7 but it won't restore it to the new drive.
Is there anything that will work?


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Steve
Thanks, my new drive is 1tb (both of the ones I have tried) the one I am cloning/backingup from is 500gb and I did run CHKDSK /F /R. I am now suspecting that the drive I am trying to copy from has some corruption in the critical files area which allows it to boot but not be accurately copied from or cloned. I ran SFC /scannow on the drive that I can boot and it stated that there are some files that could not be repaired, but I think did repair some files.
I figured out how to open the CBS log file and there is a lot of data there to wade through but I found some files that it said couldn't be repaired but they didn't look critical - i.e. desktop.init. I think I have the new drive in the right position but I have both the new and the currently working drive on the system at the same time and I use the BIOS to boot the drive that I want.
I am going to try to experiment some more - I will disconnect the currently operating drive so as not to confuse the system and use Windows Repair disk to run SFC /scannow on the drive that's failing to boot If I have any success I will post here for the benefit of others who may encounter this problem.
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