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Cloned HDD doesn't boot

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Jeremie, 2013/01/16.

  1. 2013/01/16
    Jeremie

    Jeremie Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello,
    I have an IDE hdd that ran out of space. I cloned the 79gig IDE drive to a Barracuda 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5. I replaced the old drive with the SATA drive and the computer does not recognize the HDD. I get error message Disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter"

    I recloned and got the same result. I thought the HDD was dead do I put it back in the enclosure,but the the drive acts as a storage device. So I know it not dead.

    So far Ive tried the following.

    Put the drive in another machine. When the drive is in another machine it loops at the windows startup. From the new computer I tried Chkdks which find errors ,but cant repair because volume in use and when I restart to start begin repair its doesnt go through chk dsk it goes back through the loop as if I didnt set it to do a repair.

    Created a Hirens boot USB and used fixmbr tool not successful

    Mobo is biostar p4m800-m7

    A long winded cry for help I hope someone can help.:eek:
     
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  2. 2013/01/16
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    What did you use to clone the drive with?

    What OS is on the drive?
     
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  4. 2013/01/16
    Jeremie

    Jeremie Inactive Thread Starter

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    I used Acronis True Image 2013, The OS is Windows XP
     
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  5. 2013/01/17
    Arie

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    You are probably seeing these problems because of IDE/SATA differences.

    Did you disconnect the IDE drive after cloning?

    Instead of cloning, create an image & restore that to the new drive.
     
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  6. 2013/01/17
    Jeremie

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    I disconnected the IDE drive same "Disk boot Failure... I try to image instead.
     
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  7. 2013/01/18
    Jeremie

    Jeremie Inactive Thread Starter

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    No Dice. Its as if the HDD doesnt exist in the system. Found an article that suggest that I need to confirm SATA controller driver is installed. I will try this along with any other suggestions
     
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  8. 2013/01/18
    Arie

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    Check your BIOS and set SATA to IDE mode.

    If that works, do this:

    • Open the registry editor, and select the following key
      • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci
    • Right click the value Start, select Modify and change the Value dada to 0.

    Now restart your system, enter your BIOS and change your SATA mode to AHCI. When you restart and Windows loads, it will load the AHCI driver & asks you to reboot your system.
     
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  9. 2013/01/25
    Jeremie

    Jeremie Inactive Thread Starter

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    Will try this again tonight. If it doesn't work I will cut my losses and get an IDE HDD
     
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  10. 2013/01/27
    Jeremie

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    I don't have this entry is my registry.
     
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  11. 2013/01/28
    Arie

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    If you have the SATA drivers for your motherboard, you'll need to install the driver and update the IDE controller in Device Manager to load the SATA driver.

    Then restart & change to AHCI mode in BIOS.
     
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  12. 2013/01/29
    mattman

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    My suggestion would be to clone the partitions rather than the whole disk. See if that works.

    If it works, I would creep up the size of the partition. Starting from an 80GB drive, I would start by expanding it to 200GB.

    Windows can expand a partition, Acronis should be able to do it as well.

    Sounds like a "drive size BIOS limitation" to me.
     
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  13. 2013/01/31
    Jeremie

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    This thread can be closed. I ran out of time to troubleshoot and decided to just clone to a larger IDE drive. Cloning to IDE was successful without issue. I appreciate all your help
     
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