Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit won't boot from cloned SSD
Please help. I installed Acronis 2014 and cloned my 3 yr old OCZ Vertex SSD over to a 320 Series Intel 300GB SSD. I performed this clone by removing one of my hard drives internally and cloning from the smaller SSD over to the larger SSD. I then swapped boot up drives and removed the OCZ Vertex SSD.
This worked great for 2 days. Faster and more storage which is exactly what I was hoping for.
3 days ago, the computer just stopped working. I rebooted and I couldn't get past the Windows start screen. I then started getting a CHKDSC error which I allowed to run for 3 days?? That didn't fix the computer and I still cannot boot Windows 7.
I did some research (should have visited the forum here before cloning my hard drive) and I tried to boot from my Windows 7 disc. Right now I'm running the repair function on the disc but nothing is happening. I'm not sure how long this takes, but I currently have a 300GB SSD boot drive and about 5 TB of movie rips. My entire collection of DVDs etc...
To make it worse, this happens to be the computer that my son does all of his schoolwork on? I need to somehow get this computer back up and running.
FWIW, I also tried simply replacing the old drive and it will no longer boot as well. I did check and the contents of the original drive appear intact?
Please help........I'm entirely frustrated at this point. And I was simply upgrading the SSD in order to improve gaming performance for my son.
Thanks for any help. Would be greatly appreciated.
sherwin
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GroverH wrote:Sherwin,
It is entirely possible that your computer needs repairs.It should have booted from the old disk but you may have to start in the BIOS to make sure that the old disk is what is selected as the boot disk. It may be trying to boot from the Cd or something else. Do make sure the old disk is the selected boot disk. The use of the Win CD should only take a few minutes and may need to be run more than once.
It is also possible that if you have some old TrueImage backups, you may have to restore to one of those backups but I lean to computer problems as the old disk disk not boot.
Thanks for the response. This is all so depressing since everything was working perfectly on the old drive?? I went ahead and tried booting off the new Intel SSD with the Windows 7 Ultimate CD and nothing happened. Couldn't repair or re-install Windows 7. I gave up.
Now I have the OCZ 60gb SSD boot drive back in my computer and I figured I would try the Startup Repair first. It's been a few hours and my computer is still searching for problems. But at least it allowed me to get back into Repair or Reinstall.
I don't have any other TrueImage backups that I'm aware of? I installed TI 2014 a few days before cloning my boot drive.
Anything I should try next? Getting desperate now since my son needs the use of this computer for his schoolwork? I don't want to start uninstalling drives in order to find his schoolwork just yet.
And cloning the hard drive seemed so painless with Trueimage 2014. Then again, I've never cloned an SSD from an existing SSD?
sherwin
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Consider asking Acronis for help via paid support $9.99 is the charge I believe.
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As Grover mentioned, this sounds more like an actual PC problem -if the old drive was working and you didn't reformat it and now it doesn't work would point to either a PC fault or maybe a cable fault. Ditto with the new drive, if it was working then the cloning worked OK.
There is another possiblity that a Windows or OEM update has gone horrifically wrong.
Have you tried booting from the Acronis recovery CD?
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What is the sequence for booting from the Acronis CD? Do I need to change the Bios settings in order to do so?
I just understand why I can't even boot from the Windows disk?
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You need to ensure that the BIOS or UEFI boots from CDs first, it might also, depending upon your PC require booting from CD to ahve a highter priority than booting from hard drive.
It is possible that something has removed the active flag from the hard drive(s). Using a disk utility will show you if any of your partitions on your old or new drive are marked as 'active', if they aren't then there will be no boot. Wit a disk uitlity you will be able to mark the disk as active if it hs managed to deactivate itself.
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