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Migrate Easy 7.0 and Vista PC no longer boots

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On January 9th 2013 - I ran Migrate Easy 7.0 on my Vista Home Premium Edition ...and believed that the 500Gbit to 1Tbit C-drive upgrade ran perfectly. I don't believe that to be the case anymore.

One of the first things I noticed back in February was that my last Windows update was 01/09/2013... I could no longer get Windows or Windows Defender updates...even when I tried to update manually. All attempts correct the problem have not worked.

The other day I tried to upgrade to a newer version of AVAST, AVAST 8.0 and now my PC wont boot.

On power up my VISTA PC gets to the display that is all black, except for a graphic that moves from left to right ( looks like you're looking at the side view of an IC Chip ) and has the words Microsoft Corporation. Normally this cycles about 10 - 12 times and then
my PC user login screen appears.

After the little IC graphic cycles about 5 - 8 times... it suddenly just freezes. I've left the PC sitting in that state for 5 hours and it never continued.

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I don't believe it is the AVAST software as I reenstated my original 500Gbit drive and version 8 runs without trouble.

I have read a number of reveiws, prior to making my purchase, that said that Migrate Easy 7.0 seemed to work until a previous installed program was uninstalled.
I believe that is what the AVAST upgrade does.. it uninstalls the previous version to install the new.

I would like to run Migrate Easy 7.0 again to go from the 500Gbit to the 1Tbit and am looking for guidance as to how to not lose the ability to get security updates and how not to cause my PC to become unbootable if an upgrade program uninstalls a previous version

Thanx in advance
Ed

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Edward,

I haven't heard of Windows updates not working after a clone before.

Whilst I haven't used Avast, if it locks itself into the disk ID or the disk serial number, it is possible that it might not work properly afterwards.

It is best to start the clone from CD, that way Windows can not hold files open or otherwise interfere with the clone process.

If you are using a laptop you might get a better reuslt if you place the source drive (500 GB) into the external caddy and the new drive (1TB) into the laptop and reverse clone, that is, clone from the external disk to the internal. This is sometimes required because laptops can have a different drive geometry to PCs.