I bought a new 1T hard drive. a seagate barracuda sata. I followed the disc wizard instructions to clone my hard drive but after I chose the disc to clone etc and it restarted the computer now I just have a blank black screen with a flashing cursor. and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. (let it sit for more than 10 min. and the hdd light never flashes or anything.) and now my old drive will not boot?
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I have tried everything by the book and have no luck. Here's the problem, I have a 4 drive setup:
-60Gb SSD (Windows 7 Ult x64 + some programs) (c)
-30Gb SSD (i)
-1Tb HDD (h)
-250Gb HDD (empty reserved for Win) (f)
As the 60Gb SSD drive is full I want to migrate the whole drive to the empty 250Gb HDD. Of course, no need to say that I want everything to run afterwards without any re-installs (also the files on i and h). I have tried many clone software (Paragon, EaseUS ToDo etc) and the clone goes ok, but it wont boot from the destination drive. Luckily enough I still have the original c drive otherwise I would be stuck! I also looked at the Windows backup and restore, but by default it want to clone all my drives and I cant deselect them (over a Tb of a backup??)
Now what can I do to get this sorted? I just want contents of the 60Gb SSD (with Windows 7) on the empty 250Gb HDD. Also, when cloned, the new drive is not 'c' anymore. How would all programs/files work? Or is the idea that you delete the original drive and then rename the copy to 'c'? I probably do something wrong, but a clean install would take days (as web designer I use loads of software and not looking forward to reinstall all those).
I went to Fry's and got a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 5900 RPM Hard Drive. I plugged it in as soon as I got home and it didn't show up in 7. I'll see if it wants to work with XP or Ubuntu, but I don't have high hopes.
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Macrium error displays: bad86d19ab8ec315621073b18526d36b.png
Easeus is just stuck at 2%.
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OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor, AMD64 Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 16126 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4200, 368 Mb
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Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC., M4A785TD-M EVO
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