[WOODY210363]

Hi, I normally keep two hard drives in my pc and use Acronis to clone one to the other to prevent data loss.
I have just purchased a new hard drive (as the spare was now to small) and cloned it with the C drive, I took the original out of the pc and tried to boot the new one alone to test the copy but it will not boot by itself. The strange thing is if I connect the C drive back to the pc the new drive will boot. I have tried writing a new boot sector to no avail.
Does any body have any ideas why this is happening?

My PC is a Packard Bell IMEDIA J2422 (PART NUMBER: - PB80117101), with Sata hard drives running XP

 

[woodenbox]

Are you able to boot from the 2nd drive (the cloned one that isn't the new one)? Also, do you have the space to fit all 3 hard drives, and are they formatted in NTFS? If so you may consider using a mount point to expand the capacity of the C:\ volume instead of replacing that hard drive altogether.

 

[dai]

boot into the recovery console and run

fixboot

 

[WOODY210363]

Hi, Thanks for the reply, I have already tried Fixboot and that did not work either.

Hi, Thanks for the reply, yes I am able to boot from the 2nd drive (the cloned one that isn't the new one) But I cannot fit in all 3 hard drives, yes they are formatted in NTFS

 

[woodenbox]

What error message is it giving you once you pass POST?

 

[WOODY210363]

It goes past post and gets to the blue screen where you here the XP intro music, but you do not get to here the music and it hangs there.

 

[woodenbox]

Ok, it sounds like the issue is not with the boot sector, but with the operating system files on that drive. Press F8 as the system starts up and see if you can start in safe mode. If not, then see if you can get the BSOD error code (looks like 0x00000000). If the screen flashes too quickly then F8 again as the system starts up and there should be an option to prevent it from restarting automatically after a system fault so you can read the BSOD.

 

[dai]

check for minidumps

C:\Windows\Minidump\Minidump.dmp