Cloned Hard Drive Not Booting

Discussion in 'Acronis True Image Product Line' started by digitaldiva, Oct 26, 2007.

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  1. digitaldiva

    digitaldiva Registered Member

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    Aloha,
    I used True Image Home 11.0 bootable CD-ROM to clone my old hard drive onto my new hard drive. They are both 80GB Western Digital hard drives, the original is running Windows XP. I kept the same partitions and asked that the original stay the same, no data was erased. Now when I try to boot from the new cloned hard drive I get no boot media found. I verified in the BIOS that I was booting to the correct new hard drive and still I get no bootable device found.

    Is it even possible to to boot from a cloned hard drive. I read that would work...
    Any advice would be great. I would be soooo grateful to get this working.
     
  2. GroverH

    GroverH Registered Member

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    Redo the cloning.
    After cloning and before first bootup, disconnect data cable on old drive.
    Boot to new drive and make sure the proper drive is selected in BIOS.

    After a successful boot from the new drive, then you can connect the old drive and should be able to boot from either if BIOS will allow.
     
  3. digitaldiva

    digitaldiva Registered Member

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    you called me out for leaving the old drive in at the first reboot. recloned, booted only the new drive and its golden. Thank you! Mahalo!
     
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