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Trouble with Vista after cloning hard drive

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I recently bought a 500gb 3.5" drive to replace the 320gb drive in my laptop.

Did everything correct, I think, and I have issues with Vista services now. I get errors that say the services are not running but they are indeed running. Outlook doesn't index the email for searching. Windows update doesn't run without telling me the services are not running and may need to restart the PC. Microsft Security Essentials will not update and tells me to check the internet connection and the error code displayed is 0xc8000247.

The list goes on.

I took my old drive and mounted it in the USB closure and the new drive in the PC. Cloned and then booted. Drivers were located and installed which required a reboot. Rebooted and these issues are here.

I saw someplace that someone said something about the HD driver needed updating but I am not sure about that since they had a HP laptop and I have a Gateway.

I am running Vista SP2 with 4gb of RAM.

This has been going on for days and I am going to put the old drive back in.

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Greetings,
I assume your mean 2.5 in drive. (Laptop) Safe and easy solution to all of this. Put your source disk back in to the laptop. Confirm all is working normally. We recommend using a boot CD for all these operations. Create a full disk image back up of your drive. Now restore those partitions to the new disk, one by one, in sequence, in the same layout as they appear on the source disk. Want to make one of the partitions bigger or smaller, no problem. Rebooting between operations is not required. When you are finished. Remove the old drive and put the new drive in its place. The system should boot.

Grover's Guides are excellent and helpful.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426

http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/mvp/user285/guides/tih2012…

You are correct 2.5" drive (typo that I should have caught).

I'll try this and hopefully this resolves everything.

Thanks for the input.

Sure. We're happy to help further if needed.