Replaced Hard Drive - Disk Boot Failure
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Comments (5)I took a slightly different approach when I bought a larger drive. I got a drive imaging program, created an image and a boot CD with the image software on it and then just restored the image to the new drive (but told the image program to expand the partition size). I used a program from Terabyte Unlimited called Drive image, but Acronis True image and Norton Ghost are probably better known. Depending on where you buy the drive, sometimes they'll include a limited use version of a drive imaging program to simplify it for you....See MoreHard Drive problems - Again- Worse - Windows won't start
Comments (8)Whew! I took out the replacement second internal hard drive (and the external hard drive). Rebooted - everything booted up fine. Then I shut down. Reattached the external drive - booted up - everything's fine. So does it seem that the replacement drive from WD is bad as well? (I did not put the 2TB drive back in - but it was working fine before. Again - this drive was bought for when I get around to setting up a dual boot XP/Windows 7 drive - and until my family crisis - and multiple electronic/tech failures are resolved, I'm not going to tackle that one.) Don't know why it wouldn't boot from the original hard drive when the replacement second drive was installed. Any thoughts? since it does boot with the bad drive - although it mentions the hard drive problem and allows me to select F1 to continue. At least I'm up and running - and the main, original drive seems fine. (I have used Acronis - and did a back up and incremental over the summer. Then did a full clone in December when I thought the drive was failing. But I am still quite confused by the acronis instructions - and would like to start from scratch. Now I have a 2TB external drive and would like to make the proper kind of back up. How should I do this - as the words on some of instructions Raven often links use clone at one point but seem to be talking about a different kind of back up. One complication is that the original thread for acronis 2010 - with pics - is gone now and acronis 2011 instructions are more fleshed out). I have Acronis 2010. Thank you. Lynn....See MoreBoot disk failure, insert system disk and press enter.
Comments (14)My goodness gracious, this really isn't that complicated. If you suspected a bad drive, what you should have done is determined the manufacturer of the drive and downloaded the manufacturers diagnostic utility. If it reported errors, replace the drive (perhaps under warranty) if not, look elsewhere for the source of trouble. As it appears you replaced the original drive, the new drive is blank and has no operating system hence the error message. You have four choices: Reinstall the original drive and run the appropriate diagnostic utility to see if the drive is actually failing. Leave the new drive in place and reinstall the operating system via the supplied recovery disc which will return the computer as it was when you first opened the box. Once that's up and running, get all the Windows updates and install any software you'd like to use. Of course, you'll loose any data on the old drive. You do not need to download any drivers first unless you've made big hardware changes to the computer. "Big" changes would most likely be video or sound cards. Use the original drive to make a clone (exact copy) of the drive contents on the new drive. Every drive manufacturer includes the necessary software and instructions in the package or makes it available as a free download from their website. While this method will preserve your son's data, if the problem wasn't the drive but rather, say, some corruption in Windows, those problems will continue. Leave the new drive in place and reinstall the old drive. Run the recovery disc, installing Windows to the new drive. As described above, get Windows updates and reinstall any software. Selectively copy data files from the old drive to the new drive. If the diagnostic software indicates impending failure, do this part quickly. Let us know how you want to proceed and if you need additional instructions....See MoreReplacing hard drive
Comments (10)I mention Macrium Reflect because it appears to function as desired in creating an image...is pretty straightforward to use and gets updated regularly...and I haven't heard much about it that was negative. But since 1993...none of the hard drives in 4 different desktops have ever failed so I have never had to actually restore a saved image. Seems to me that the basic process would be: Create the image as desired and save to an external drive Create bootable rescue media as described Replace the bad hard drive with the new one Boot rescue media Follow the instructions to restore the saved image to the new drive. As I said, I have not done it myself so I do not represent this as being the correct procedure. Hopefully, someone else will chime in with more info if needed. If you get it done, please report back so everyone will benefit from the info. This post was edited by azinoh on Sun, Jul 6, 14 at 13:44...See MoreRichard (Vero Beach, Florida)
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