Missing operating system

Greetings all! I just bought and downloaded TI because I need to clone my hard drive to a new one. After it went thru the motions I made the cloned drive the master and unplugged the old drive and started up my computer. During start up it displays, "Missing Operating System." I have searched for someone with this similar problem and haven't found a solution yet. If someone can help me I would appreciate it.

thanks,
Bob

 

Please go to the bios and check the order of boot...

 

Since you said you set it to master I will assume it is not a Sata drive. Did you move the now master drive to the end connector of the cable as well?

 

Thanks for the reply. You are right, it is not SATA. I pulled the cable off the old drive and put it on the new drive. It is set up just like the OEM.

 

Thanks for the reply. I checked the order of boot in the BIOS and it is in there as third, right behind the CD and DVD drives.

 

I just checked the properties on both drives (using the new one as a slave) and here is what i have:

"cloned" drive: 99,067 files, 10,698 folders, 12.7gb size (13,732,402,769, 10.7 on disk (11,496,056,643)

"old" drive: 99,112 files, 10,698 folders, 12.7gb size (13,737,041,36, 10.7 on disk (11,500,767,043).

As you can see, it doesn't look like it really "cloned" the old drive.

 

Are you using xp or vista? I would try a chkdsk on the hard drive first, just to rule that out. The error "missing operating system" , I've seen that before when there was file corruption on a hard drive.

If you are using xp, it would be a good idea to rule out a partition ID drive letter problem, especially if the source windows hard drive has previously ID'ed and added to the registry the hard drive that it will be restored on.

 

Clone or Restore using Resize comparison
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1299861&postcount=9

Inside the above link points to my guide on Cloning. I recommend you read and follow the guide. The recommendation from the guide
is that you perform the clone from when booted from the TI Rescue CD;
and the target be installed in its normal boot position before cloning.;
and the original master drive be moved to an auxiliary position before cloning.
The auxiliary position could be an external or network or other internal location.

Note that a trial version of TI does not permit a cloning when booted from the TI trial Rescue CD.

 

Grover,
Thanks for the reply. Man, I have tried everything except for the restore with resizing. I'll try that next.

The last thing I tried that I thought would work was I made the new drive the master, the old drive the slave and swapped the cables. I used the boot CD and performed the "reverse clone" and then disconnected the drive before initial reboot. Still, I get the error. I am going to try the restore now and see if it works. My frustrations are maxed out right now.

thanks again,

 

I don't think i can do the restore function because in order for me to do the back up i need 118gb of free space and unfortunately i do naot have that much room on my current c or d drive. my d drive has only about 30gb free and my c drive is down to a lowly 370mb (which is why i am upgrading).

 

HeelZ_Fan,

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=270

Have you confirmed the OS partition is "active"? It should be but the OS should have booted too.

 

OK, so I tried the restore option and I still get the same error. Now I am really irritated. The only reason I bought this program is because I did not want to waste the time trying to find all my old disks and serial numbers for all the programs to be reinstalled. At this point I have wasted hours and hours trying to get this to work but I have had absolutely zero success.

Thank you to all of you who have tried to help. I really appreciate your efforts. If you have anymore suggestions I would be glad to hear them.

thanks again.

 

HeelZ_Fan,

You haven't answered whether the OS partition is active. It's a likely cause.

 

Hello HeelZ_Fan,

Thank you for your interesting in Acronis True Image

Here is article from Microsoft support regarding this issue. I would recommend you repair the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard disk using the following method, boot from Windows installation disc into Recovery Console and run "fixmbr" command, it should solve the issue.

Best regards,
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Dmitry Nikolaev