What have I done now?

pgi947

pgi947

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Evening all.

Just re-built my system, including a brand new SSD (Agility 3 240GB).

Got everything running fine on my old SSD (crucial C300 60GB), thought I'd try migrating the partition over from the old to the new, using Paragon Migrate. Everything seemingly went well, on reboot Paragon said it was a success, noticed it was still booting windows from the old SSD, rebooted and changed boot priorities to boot from the OCZ SSD first.

Now all I get is the flashing white dash in the top left of the screen, as if its looking for hardware thats non existant, changed boot order back to the old SSD and the same thing happens, so as is I have no accessible OS.

So the question is, what have I gone and broken now?

I have a hunch its something to do with the boot sector on the OCZ drive, as if the windows files are there but the BCD may be corrupt? I will fish out my windows7 disc in the morning and see what it suggests.

Any help or pointers at all welcome. Thanks in advance :)
 
you might be able to do a system restore or start up repair with the windows dvd

unplug one ssd though so it doesnt mess things up further and try and recover the start up

paragon always works flawlessly for me
 
wazza300 said:
paragon always works flawlessly for me
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The reason I picked it tbh, saw a thread on here a few weeks ago where you suggested it :)

The problem reminds me of years ago while dual booting XP and Linux, the linux partition would always corrupt XP's MBR and give me pretty much what I'm getting now, nothing FIXBOOT & FIXMBR from command repair couldn't fix.

Have a horrible feeling the mrs has either hidden or thrown away my Win7 disc :rolleyes: Its not where it should be anyhow.

Will a win7 basic disc allow me to do repairs on win7 ultimate? both x64.
 
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wazza300 said:
theres a link somewhere where you can legally download it and burn to an iso

digital river i think,cant remember

i feel a little guilty but its worked great for me,i always disconnect my old copied drive after ive cloned it though to be 100% sure
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I'll be honest, its probably something I've done wrong, I have a habbit of just hitting 'next' until something happens :p

Will have a look out for a copy of it, digital river does ring a few bells.

Its not biggie if the OS is lost, it was purely that, just the OS.
 
Essexraptor said:
My bet... is that you did not select the MBR in the copy over
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This was/is my first thought, I don't recall selecting anything to be fair, whoops!

Justintime said:
Tried just booting with the old ssd installed?
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I have indeed, same thing, would appear what ever I have done has corrupted the BCD.

Have a hunch my windows disc is packed away in my motherboard box, why I woke up at 6am on a sunday to remember this is beyond me :p
 
Well I found my Win7 disc, ran recovery, it doesn't pick up any operating systems, though when I run start up restore and view details it claims to have found a partition table error that has now been fixed, yet still can't boot to windows, same error as above.

Any suggestions on where to go from here?

Edit: forgot about bootrec.exe, just going to try that now
 
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Well bootrec was pretty useless, it detects two windows OS's (old and new SSD) but any attempts to fix anything ends in 'element not found'.

Time to try gparted and see if I can just set an active partition/mbr on that then try repair.

PROGRESS!!!

Booted from gparted live disc, selected 'boot from MBR on Disc #1' and I'm now back in windows on the old 60GB ssd, just going to run easyBCD and see if I can sort this out once and for all.

Edit: Fixed, re-created the BCD in easyBCD, added the agility 3 into the boot list, booted from new SSD and now in windows, so I can go and remove the old SSD and format it ready for SRT :)

Lesson learned from this? Don't skim over options and don't use windows recovery, spent an hour playing about to no avail, 3 mins in gParted and I'm sorted.
 
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