Cloned A 10 Gigs HDD To A 40 Gigs Doesn't Boot
Jul 15, 2009
I used HDClone to clone a 10 GB to a 40 GB disk. The program is very simple dealing with Source and Target, bit to bit copy. I left the option bit to bit copy unchecked in order to leave the recommended setting.After finishing this I connected the cloned drive to the master connector and removed the original disk from the system. I already thought it wouldn't let me boot to XP because it's a different disk. After the error I restarted booting the XP-Disk. I tried repairing using bootcfg /add. It found the Windows installation and I could add it. But after the restart, same again:Error loading operating system.So, what could be the reason. Partition not set to active? MBR? Should I make a bit to bit copy?
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Jan 2, 2009
I am used to running windows xp Pro 32 bit with 4 gigs of ram and only 3.5 showing up, but ever since I installed a new motherboard, the ram is only showing 3.24 now. Does anyone know how to fix this or what may be causing this? Even the bios shows my entire 4 gigs of ram.and I am also using 2, 2 gig sticks of DDR2 800 MHz ram for a total of 4 gigs of RAM.
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Having suffered 3 HDD failures, I have cloned my laptop hard drive (XP Home edition) with Norton Ghost 9.0. I have copied the MBR as well and made it active. Replaced the laptop drive with the cloned drive, but it only boots up to the XP light blue screen and stalls.
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I had Windows 7 installed on my laptop Dell Vostro 860, 2GB RAM, that after 2 months crashed. It gave me a black screen with"bootmgr is compressed press ctrl+alt+del to restart" that could not be fixed fast because I had lent my Win7 to someone who is far from me at the moment.I had the brilliant ideea to install Windows XP (since I had the CD).Everything went well up until the point when, during the installation it told me that it couldn't copy a file from the CD and the option to skip or try again. I skipped it since "try again" didn't do anything. I thought it couldn't do much harm. I got to the blue screen with the green bullets, progress bar and 39 minutes left when I got this error that said that windows can't continue and restarts the comp.
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