clone windows to new hard drive

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:51

hi i need somne help please i have got a new bigger and faster hard drive and last night i used HDclone to copy the C: drive to the new one all copy fine but when i got to bios and selcet drive to boot from it doesnt boot and i have tried windows 7 disk i have noticed in disk manasgment that the hard drives attrubitus are different but i dont know how i change them please help

Doosh · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:18

Do you still have the original drive plugged in as well?

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:26

yes i do when i unlpugged the orignal windows didnt boot and tried recovey but it dindt see the new drive as a windows instalution

Jakeee · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:28

You may have needed to the format (Partition) the brand new hard drive before using HDClone mate.

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:30

it was formatted i has copyed all the files over but still not running

ewarwoowar · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:32

Try something like acronis ro the actualy windows image backup software

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:37

dont really want to pay £23 for software that i will proberly only use once

thunderflash · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:41

windy2851 said:
dont really want to pay £23 for software that i will proberly only use once

Are they western digital drives by any chance? If they are then the software is free here. 1 Reason I always buy Western Digital.

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:47

do both drives have to wd the old one is the new one is samsung

bells · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:48

Just use the trial version of acronis

http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

thunderflash · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:51

windy2851 said:
do both drives have to wd the old one is the new one is samsung

I think the new drive has to be WD.

thunderflash · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:53

I made a new boot drive from my raid 0 drives last night, disconnected them and left the new one in and booted no problem. Was just a test to see how easy it was, as I will be moving to 2 new drives soon.

ewarwoowar · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:53

Then just use the windows 7 image and restore program....

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:54

im gonna try acronis easy migrate see how i get on with that i have a very slow internet conection so would take ages to donload the whole lot max i get is 50kB/s lmao

ewarwoowar · 17 Mar 2011 at 15:57

ewarwoowar said:
Then just use the windows 7 image and restore program....

windy2851 · 17 Mar 2011 at 16:31

acronis easy migrate didnt work

kingbender · 17 Mar 2011 at 16:50

have you tried easeus todo backup? i'm sure i've used this without any problems.

Zid_ · 17 Mar 2011 at 17:11

ewarwoowar said:
Then just use the windows 7 image and restore program....

To explain why OP needs to do this: You've simply copied the files over, you haven't actually made the drive bootable.

TWiNKLeT0Es · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:58

windy2851 said:
when i got to bios and selcet drive to boot from it doesnt boot and i have tried windows 7 disk

Doosh said:
Do you still have the original drive plugged in as well?

Start again with the partition copy and next time remove the original Windows boot drive before attempting to boot again?

windy2851 said:
do both drives have to wd the old one is the new one is samsung

It does not matter as long as a Western Digital drive is connected via SATA or USB or whatever.

You can always give Clonezilla a go if you are still stuck?

TerryH · 17 Mar 2011 at 20:59

I use Norton Ghost for this, I found the control settings quite simple to get used to, however most people quite rightly also use Acronis true image.