my win 7 64 bit wouldn't boot. i fixed it but is is too slow. is there any program that can clone the HD while it is off i ried to connect a laptop to the disk with sata but got the check cable error. i don't think is bad as it boots in the pc and HD Sentinel gave no warning recently
Sounds like he is removing the disk and trying to clone it with a laptop and attaching the disk as an external. I have had many reliability issues with external SATA. A USB adapter or enclosure might be more reliable.
sorry guys was very tired when i wrote that my windows seven won't boot it hangs at a welcome screen i used a repair disk ,the original install disk and fixed the mbr and it booted but was so slow i could not use itit was only using 1.5 Gb of memory out of 16 GB. i took out the ram and reseated it in case it was that but still the same i also tried start up repair from the install disk and it ran all night and just kept saying "repairing files this could take over an hour" or similar scannow finds no problems. chkdsk finds no problems using a paragon emergency disk i booted to the recovery and could ses all my files .there was option to save them but only to a dvd. an extenal disk i connected was not available it is a 1TB Western Digital with the OS and other files.system restore was off I want to boot into a recovery similar to the paragon but with option to clone something like link below at 2 mins 17 secs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjZ2tpu_oRE i made that bootable usb but it would not boot i made it on an old vista which i am typing this on but it would not boot on the vista. Said " ntdlr missing" and would not boot on the seven the seven has power and turns on i don't think the disk is bad, no warnings came from HD sentinel This happened the first start up after bit defender deleted some files that were NOT malware. false positive no quarantine just deleted them Don't know if that is co incidence
David, thanks. I suggest you make an Active@ Boot Disk... https://www.lsoft.net/bootdisk/index.html#download Boot from the USB flash drive and copy your files to a USB external hard drive.
