Cloned drive will only boot on SATA 1
I used the latest version of True Image to clone a 500gb drive to 1tb using the quick mode. The 500gb drive was on SATA 0, the 1tb on SATA 1 (normally a DVD player). The clone went fine and powered down when done. I then removed the old drive, put the new drive on SATA 0 and the DVD player back to SATA 1. No dice. Says there is no boot device. However, if I plug in the new drive to SATA 1, with no DVD player, it boots fine. Except now I have no DVD player. If I put the DVD player on SATA 0, the new drive comes up as a slave and I'm stuck. I can't boot. Any ideas?

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If I put it on SATA 0, it doesn't even recognize the drive. Says not installed. So no, I can't tell it to boot from that drive.
If I put it on SATA 1 and put the DVD player on SATA 0, it says it's a slave drive and not bootable.
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Master slave is for IDE drives and doiesn't apply to SATA drives. For some reason your PC is trying to recognize a SATA drive as an IDE and doesn't like what it sees. This is a SATA cable on a SATA drive connected to a motherboard SATA port?
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Consider redoing the clone except switch the drives before you start so that the new blank larger drive is on Sata0 and perform the clone when booted from the TI Rescue/Recovery CD. When done. remove the data cable on Sata1 so only Sata0 is attached on first boot following the clone.
It is always wise and prudent to perform a full disk backup (all partitions). In theory, there should be no risk to the source drive during cloning as the disk is only read. In practice, however, there has been far too many postings of something going wrong during the process. Sometimes it is the operator choosing the wrong disk and cloning the blank onto the master; other times, the power fails during the process; at other times, the computer freezes and the the drive is lost. Simply stated, why take the risk of cloning when it takes on a few minutes longer to do the restore and the master disk is not even connected.
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That's what I thought, but that's what it's saying. And yes, SATA all the way.
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Yeah, I read about the reverse clone, but too late. I had already moved to the new drive and started working off it. So redoing the clone means I lose two days worth of work. It can be done, but sort of a pain. So is there anyway to get this thing fixed without recloning?
I didn't do a full disk backup because I didn't have an extra drive for it and needed to get back up running ASAP. All data is backed up multiple places, but no place to put an image.
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You don't have to lose two days work. You can make a My Data backup of your data files and after doing your clone thing, then restore those files.
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