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Boot Manager error on cloning drive

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Hello, I was trying to clone my OS hard drive to a new one. I went through the process, it rebooted and said it copied everything fine then rebooted again and then it started giving an error that there was an issue with the boot manager. I've tried both the original drive and the clone drive, both give the same thing. It says to repair with windows CD, I put in my recovery CD that came with the PC and it just keeps going back to the boot manager error, it never tries to the load the CD.

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Welcome,
Is the original source disk still booting into the OS normally?

If yes, we recommend that you perform a full disk back up, instead of a clone operation. Doing this will allow you to restore that image to a new drive, bigger or smaller. The "Disk Mode" back up maintains the boot mgr, or the specific configuration of the source disk which can then be restored to another disk of your choice.

If the source disk is not booting, it will need to be repaired using your windows CD. Note: The Boot Mgr repair is not a repair install of the OS.

Just so we are clear, were there any problems with the source disk prior to attempting a clone operation?

No, it was fine, I was just upgrading to a larger disk space. It only had the OS on it, was a 30GBSSD and was changing to a 120GB SSD.

Thanks, from your description it sounds like you are workig in windows 7? You need to attempt a repair of the boot mgr.

It's possible that your system is not set to boot from the CD ROM first, instead it wants to boot from the first HDD.

This can be changed in BIOS (Boot Order Options), or depending on the brand of your computer or Motherboard, by pressing a key (often F5, F8 or F12, immediately after POST, (tap, pause, tap, pause...)which brings up a one time boot from (X device) menu. You can then tell the system to boot from your CD ROM this time only. That should get you to the Start Up Repair Option.

Here's a helpful tutorial

Just to give you an idea what might have happened. SSD drives require a certain offset at the begining of the disk in order for correct disk alignment and partition structure. If the offset is different than what the OS is expecting, a boot error can occur.

Thanks for the information and help! I'll try and see if I can switch boot sequence in the bios when I get a chance.