[solved] Cloned HDD won't start Windows XP

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Hi all

I have an old 40GB HDD with Windows XP an a "new" 80GB HDD. I tried to clone the 40GB on the 80GB HDD but Windows XP won't start. It always says: "Not Boot Disk or Disk failure"

I am using the boot disk of Acronis True Image 2010 Build 7046 to clone the drives. I also receive the message that the clone process was successfully completed. But the computer won't start from the new drive. However when I start from the old drive, the new drive seems to contain all data and is fully accessible from Windows XP.

Does anybody have a hint or idea what I could do or did I miss something?

Jenny

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 15:37
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Did you disconnect the old drive before rebooting with the new drive? If not then redo the clone. Power down and disconnect the old drive before restarting your machine. Windows gets confused easily if you don't. See Grover's guide http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426 section 7D for some do's and don'ts.

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 15:52
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Thanks for your answer

Yes, I did disconnect the old drive before rebooting. If I don't disconnect the old drive, Windows will start from the old drive.
The correct error message is: "Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter"

I will try some hints from http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1299861&postcount=9 , thanks for that.
Especially this one: "Prior to the procedure, placed the original drive in another location such as another internal or external location."

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 16:32
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Well, I have now attached the old drive as external USB drive and cloned from there to the new 80GB HDD. Clonig was again successful, but Windows will still not start. Again "Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter"

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 17:07
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I don't have any experience with cloning, but I've done successful disk image backups and restores with an XP system and have had no problems at all with booting. Perhaps trying this may help.

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 17:40
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Given the size of the drives it appears they are IDE.

If so, have you got the master, slave or cable-select jumpers set properly and are using the primary IDE channel for the boot drive? Most PCs won't boot unless the drive is the master device on the primary IDE channel. If you are using cable-select be sure you are using the proper IDE connector on the cable for the boot drive.

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 17:43
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Correct, the drives are old IDE ones, sorry forgot to mention

I did the following:

- Jumpered the old 40 GB drive from master to slave (Windows did boot fine)
- Installed the new 80 GB as Master and the 40 GB as slave
- Cloned the 40GB to the 80GB drive (Windows fails to boot)

Then I tried
- Jumpered the 40GB back to master
- Attached it as external USB drive
- Cloned the 40GB "external" drive to the new 80 GB drive
- Windows fails to boot

I will now try to create an Image and restore it on the new 80 GB drive.

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 17:59
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Yes! The Image workaround was finally successful. Don't know why the clonig did not work, but als least I got what I wanted.

Thanks to all of you and greetings from 33°C hot Bavaria, Germany.

Jenny

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 18:28
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The benefit of a real disk image as opposed to a clone is now you have a system backup that you know works. Cloning does not give you this benefit, which is why I don't like the cloning approach.

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 19:42
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I agree, but for the image I need another HDD, and for the cloning I don't. And in addition this is not my own computer, I just "upgraded" the HDD for someone else. For this purpose the cloning seemed to be the appropriate method.

Lun, 07/12/2010 - 20:02