cloning seagate 200Gb to Seagate 200Gb
Im using Acronis Home 2010, and have XP home SP3 installed. When I clone the above disks, everything goes smoothly. It is a primary disk with the OS installed.
When I try to boot from the cloned disk, it freezes, and the first boot said missing "NTOSKRNL", after re-copying that, the next boot gives me an error message : PCI driver file missing. I havent gone any further, but I dont want to copy a file at a time and go through the reconfig my system. I planned on using the cloned drive as a new primary.
ANY IDEAS?
John
John,
What type of computer do you have?
How did you perform the cloning operations exactly?
Is your old disk still booting normally?
Its a dEll Dimension 3000. Just followed the icons in Acronis to work it. The original disk boots normally when configured. Does this sound like a defective new HDD???
Since the ntoskrnl.exe is the boot file of the Win family of OSs, I would guess that you may have a faulty boot sector on your drive. Are you sure that it was formatted correctly before you attempted the cloning operation. Take another stab at preparing the drive and be sure that it is marked primary.
I think you got it, but how do u format a raw disk with 3 partitions., 1 each NTFS, FAT16, & FAT32.
Generally speaking, these are the recommended procedures when cloning.
1.Remove the old drive and insert the new blank unformatted drive in same exact location as original.
2. If old source is being used as cloning, then place the old drive in another external enclosure or internal location such as CD enclosure.
3. Boot from the TI Rescue CD.
4. Perform the clone from the backup or source disk storage location.
A manual method of cloning is preferred if the target disk is larger than source.
5. After completion. Shutdown and disconnect any other drives connected.
6. Reboot with only the single newly restored disk attached.
John:
When you clone a disk using Acronis true image, it is best to use a "bootable rescue media", either a Flash key or a CD/DVD to boot the machine into the Acronis stand alone window. You then select "Clone" and always stroke the radio button, "Delete partitions on the destination Disk." This will ensure that your disk is correct, and it makes a perfect clone of the existing disk that can boot correctly.
Do not use the clone function within Windows, as I have had cases that it would not make a perfect bootable copy. The "bootable rescue media" is the best way to do it .I have never had a failure.
TY ALL. Problem probably solved.
John,
How did you solve it?
Disk Failed, sent it back. I'm awaiting a new one, and from all the info i've received here, I'll do it right the first time. I got a WD this time. Never had one of those fail b4 ~!
John:
Never say never. I have two (2) WD 120s sitting on my desk that failed about two years of use. One was used as the master and the other was used as a clone that was shuffled back and forth in my laptop machine. one started going south and I cloned it to a 250 WD and quickly made a clone of that to another 250 WD. The second 120 was used as a test disk for a while but it started showing signs of failure. I guess that the gist of the story is that they last about 2-3 years. I suspect that because I rarely turn the machine completely off, heat does them in.