Aller au contenu principal

SATA Cloning for XP

Thread needs solution

Have just used TI 2010 for cloning my existing SATA drive (160GB) to a new 1TB drive. The old drive had a FAT32 recovery partition on it and then an NTFS partition which was drive C:.
Use TI from boot CD in manual mode and it showed that on destination drive recovery partition would still have no letter and NTFS would be C: but much bigger.
Clone seemed to go OK and computer powered down at the end.
I removed old drive and put new one in its place but system wouldnt boot up, tried running windows repair and it showed me a C:\mbinit partition and a D: partition for windows. I tried running repair on the D: partition but it asked me for an admin password and none of my passwords worked.
How can I clone and end up with a C: partition for windows that will boot properly.

0 Users found this helpful

Which partition was set Active on the cloned drive?

Which partition is Active on the source drive?

Did you get an error message when you tried to boot the drive?

It might be easier to make a backup and then restore the partitions, manually adjusting the size to use all the avaialble space onthe target drive as desired. Try restoring just the C partition first and see if it boots.

How do I tell on the cloned drive and change i f needed as so far I have not got into Windows on it. The C: partition was the active one on the old drive.

Used disk director delete recovery partition on cloned drive and make windows partition active, system will still not boot says it cant read from drive.

What brand of computer is it? Is it a laptop or a desktop?

When you cloned or restored to the drive, was the new drive connected via USB? If so, this can cause problems on some systems due to the drive geometry being detected differently than an internal drive. Try doing the clone/restore with the new drive installed in its final place and the source drive connected via USB (if an internal connection isn't possible).

The new drive was connected on another SATA port. If have sort of got this working by making an image of the C partition and thenr estoring it, works as long as happy with manaully prsseing F10 for receovery every time I boot the PC for the manufacturers built in BIOS function.

It is a MESH desktop PC with an A8NE-FM mobo