Hard Drive Upgrade Glitch Resolved

Greetings,

I had posted earlier regarding problems I was having updgrading a HD on a
Toshiba laptop. I would do the copy, and then it wouldn't boot. I think
the problem was the program I was using to make the cloned drive. I was
using an old Acronis Migrate Easy. At the suggestion of John Doue I got
Acronis True Image, less than an hour later I had my new hard drive
installed and working perfectly. I had to create a bootable CD with True
image on it, boot with the CD (press F12 on a Toshiba to get the boot
options, then select "CD/DVD"), and run the program that way. For some
reason the program wouldn't work if I tried to run it from XP, although it
says is should work. I also ran a fix disk on the source drive (the short
version, not the full search with fix for bad sectors) prior to cloning the
disk. And since I had tried and failed with the new drive, I had to
completely erase it again before it would accept all the new data from the
source drive. I used the automatic mode on True Image, but you have to
watch the prompts, you need to select "delete any existing partitions" on
the target drive, it doesn't necissarily default to this. Fortunately you
can go back and check all your settings as many times as you want
(depending your level of anxiety, I did it twice) before comitting to the
process.

I just have to say, it is amazing that you can upgrade computer like this
for less than $150.00. A lot of people go out and buy new computers just
because they want bigger HDs. If you already have the program, and the USB
thingie, all you need is the HD, and they are getting so cheap it's
rediculous. I paid $69.00 for a 160gig at Micro Center.

Paul.

In news:Xns9AD5731844FB2paugle@127.0.0.1,
Pdigmking <paugle@gmail.com> typed on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:18:41 GMT:
> Greetings,
>
> I had posted earlier regarding problems I was having updgrading a HD
> on a Toshiba laptop. I would do the copy, and then it wouldn't boot.
> I think the problem was the program I was using to make the cloned
> drive. I was using an old Acronis Migrate Easy. At the suggestion
> of John Doue I got Acronis True Image, less than an hour later I had
> my new hard drive installed and working perfectly. I had to create a
> bootable CD with True image on it, boot with the CD (press F12 on a
> Toshiba to get the boot options, then select "CD/DVD"), and run the
> program that way. For some reason the program wouldn't work if I
> tried to run it from XP, although it says is should work. I also ran
> a fix disk on the source drive (the short version, not the full
> search with fix for bad sectors) prior to cloning the disk. And
> since I had tried and failed with the new drive, I had to completely
> erase it again before it would accept all the new data from the
> source drive. I used the automatic mode on True Image, but you have
> to watch the prompts, you need to select "delete any existing
> partitions" on the target drive, it doesn't necissarily default to
> this. Fortunately you can go back and check all your settings as
> many times as you want (depending your level of anxiety, I did it
> twice) before comitting to the process.
>
> I just have to say, it is amazing that you can upgrade computer like
> this for less than $150.00. A lot of people go out and buy new
> computers just because they want bigger HDs. If you already have the
> program, and the USB thingie, all you need is the HD, and they are
> getting so cheap it's rediculous. I paid $69.00 for a 160gig at
> Micro Center.
>
> Paul.

Hi Paul! I explained earlier in your older threads of why this happens.

In news:486bbd86$0$1349$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere. com,
BillW50 typed on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:40:04 -0500:
>
> I believe I now know why. Check this out. Apparently once Windows
> sees the original partition and the cloned partition at the same
> time, you are now *******.
>
> http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm#method3
>
> Although what is also interesting is if you planned on having the
> botched cloned partition to be drive C, using Win9x FDISK /MBR will
> fix this problem. While Windows 2000/XP FIXMBR will not.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in news:4873b83d$0$1350
$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere.com:

Hey Bill,

Yeah, I found that out as well, I tried to run fdisk/mbr before I got the
disk image program, and it didn't work.


>> Paul.
>
> Hi Paul! I explained earlier in your older threads of why this happens.
>
> In news:486bbd86$0$1349$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere. com,
> BillW50 typed on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:40:04 -0500:
>>
>> I believe I now know why. Check this out. Apparently once Windows
>> sees the original partition and the cloned partition at the same
>> time, you are now *******.
>>
>> http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.htm#method3
>>
>> Although what is also interesting is if you planned on having the
>> botched cloned partition to be drive C, using Win9x FDISK /MBR will
>> fix this problem. While Windows 2000/XP FIXMBR will not.
>

In news:Xns9AD5BF1AB57A7paugle@127.0.0.1,
Pdigmking <paugle@gmail.com> typed on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:10:16 GMT:
>
> Hey Bill,
>
> Yeah, I found that out as well, I tried to run fdisk/mbr before I got
> the disk image program, and it didn't work.

Hi Paul. Weird that should have worked.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

Pdigmking wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I had posted earlier regarding problems I was having updgrading a HD on a
> Toshiba laptop. I would do the copy, and then it wouldn't boot. I think
> the problem was the program I was using to make the cloned drive. I was
> using an old Acronis Migrate Easy. At the suggestion of John Doue I got
> Acronis True Image, less than an hour later I had my new hard drive
> installed and working perfectly. I had to create a bootable CD with True
> image on it, boot with the CD (press F12 on a Toshiba to get the boot
> options, then select "CD/DVD"), and run the program that way. For some
> reason the program wouldn't work if I tried to run it from XP, although it
> says is should work. I also ran a fix disk on the source drive (the short
> version, not the full search with fix for bad sectors) prior to cloning the
> disk. And since I had tried and failed with the new drive, I had to
> completely erase it again before it would accept all the new data from the
> source drive. I used the automatic mode on True Image, but you have to
> watch the prompts, you need to select "delete any existing partitions" on
> the target drive, it doesn't necissarily default to this. Fortunately you
> can go back and check all your settings as many times as you want
> (depending your level of anxiety, I did it twice) before comitting to the
> process.
>
> I just have to say, it is amazing that you can upgrade computer like this
> for less than $150.00. A lot of people go out and buy new computers just
> because they want bigger HDs. If you already have the program, and the USB
> thingie, all you need is the HD, and they are getting so cheap it's
> rediculous. I paid $69.00 for a 160gig at Micro Center.
>
> Paul.
>
>
I am glad my advice worked for you. Just one comment: I never the
"automatic" mode of TrueImage, I feel way safer going through all
options, carefully, very carefully ... A mistake can mean a disaster!

--
John Doue