You do not say what your plans are for the new drive. Also, are both IDE or Sata or mixed? Be absolutely certain to disconnect one drive before...
Perhaps there is confusion. Isn't Dirve G the the first partition of the 500 gb SATA drive and where you restored your Acronis restore and which...
Yes, the contents of your attachment was your old boot.ini file with the 2nd partions listed. I have made the changes from (2) to (1) Copy all the...
I will get back to you in a few minutes. Just to set the record straight, I asked you open one specific file in notepad--which I knew to be a text...
If that's the only way you can get the new drive to be seen, then go ahead and connect the cdrom drives as slaves. You may have to re-assign your...
Do another search for the boot.bak file and its complete path and post its contents. The drive should be eithr G or M. and if it inside a folder...
Use Windows Explorer and open two windows side by side. Have G:\ in one and M:\ in the other window. Do you see these in both windows?...
Replying to your post #32. I would put both drives on the same cable and both CDRom's on the other cable. The burner which is your boot drive...
Never mind trying the dvdrom cable--it is too old. The new larger drives comes with a cable which has more internal wires. The power cable is not...
1. What is the drive letter currently assigned to the first partition of the new drive? 2. Also current drive letter for second partition (old...
Try using the new ribbon cable which came with the new drive. Don't guess. Please verify. It could be set to "cable select".
You should now have easy access to the boot.ini file located in the usb drive. Now you should have the contents of the file visible for...
Now that this thread has reached a 2nd page, it would be nice to have an updated summary of the problem and its current status. Generally...
Its attributes is probably set to hidden and/or read only--maybe even system. These attributes can be changes or removed via the Attributes...
I respectfully would like to offer another opinion. 1. Creating disk/partition images should not be an "either/or" situation. Having a disk (all...
Toymit, This may not be applicable depending upon your settings, but..... When an IDE internal drive is inserted into an external enclosure,...
Thanks to all!
Can you post a screen capture of your Disk Management illustration.
Just an FYI that may or may not be of assistance. From the Recovery Console prompt (c:\windows:), I was able to copy the C:\boot.ini file onto a...
BillyPig The links inside an actual thread is truncated. Most of the time, you will need to click and visit the actual link and then copy the url...
If I am understanding your situation, Windows will not boot from a USB drive unless some real special procedures are used. Having it attached as...
To run diagnostics, it does not matter how connected. However, are you trying to boot this new disk while attached as USB?? If disk passes...
JohnB352, Being new to Acronis, check out my guides. Links below. Also, check out this pdf on "Partition Restore with Resizing". It was written...
My only reason mentioning the Ultimate CD was because you listed having it. I am not familiar with it. My suggestion is that you edit the...
Thanks Como. Here's info about all type of text improvement. How to on quotes is listed here. Wilders Security Forums - vB Code List...
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