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OK I formatted the G drive again. I redid the Copy drive wizard. I checked the box for "set drive active (for booting OS)"
I also checked the box for "copy MBR".
Everything copies just fine. I change the SATA cable from C drive to the G drive. (drive G will be the new C drive.)
I restart the computer. Windows will boot. I will get the screen where I have to choose my account. From there it will say "preparing desktop...".
And that is as far as it will go. Nothing else will happen.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Some motherboards/BIOSs do not have the ability to simply logically change the drive position in their boot order. I don't know if yours does so dig out the mobo manual and see if a change is needed in BIOS. Mine did not so to get my "clone" to work I had to physically change the SATA connector for my new drive on the motherboard. Look at the mobo - are there two SATA connectors? One is known as Drive 0 and the other Drive 1. When you cloned, you probably left the old drive in the Drive 0 location and simply plugged in the new drive in the Drive 1 connector. Move the connector on your new drive from the Drive 1 connector to Drive 0. For purposes of testing, I'd leave the old drive disconnected for now.
Reboot. See if that makes it. If so, then go ahead and power down, reconnect the old drive if you're going to use it and reboot to see that the new drive is still the boot drive and that perhaps with any luck the old drive is now lettered and available.
What resulted for me was the 500 gig drive as C:\ and the old 160 gig as D:\. Worked flawlessly! It's a perfect bit-for-bit copy that XP Pro now uses to boot from.
Hey how are you doing? Thanks for the reply.
The C drive (250gb) was on Drive 0 and the G drive (750gb) was on Drive 1. (talking about the motherboard connections).
After I cloned the C drive, I powered down the system and replaced the C drive (250gb) on drive 0 with the new (750gb). I placed the new drive on Drive 0 (motherboard connection).
When I restarted the computer. Windows will boot with the logo. I will get the screen where I have to choose my account. From there it will say "preparing desktop...".
And that is as far as it will go. Nothing else will happen.
Thanks again.
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer INTEL_
System Model D975XBX2
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz, 2660 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. BX97520J.86A.2836.2008.0728.1946, 7/28/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.25 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.93 GB
Total Virtual Memory 10.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 8.91 GB
Page File Space 7.08 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
I re-copied the C drive to the G drive.
I shut the computer down and installed the G drive in Slot 0 in the motherboard.
I let it boot. The computer is basically saying that the G drive is still the G drive and not the new C drive.
Does that make sense? It does to me.
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