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Computer wont boot Vista completely from newly clones HDD
Dell Optiplex 755 with 80gb hard drive
my installed 80gb hard drive was indicating it was critically low in available storage. i purchased a 250gb seagate sata to replace the drive. i used "acronis migrated easy" to format and clone the original hard drive to the new larger hard drive. As part of this process the new drive ( labled the boot drive) was given the letter designation H:. The clone was successful and I viewed the H: drive and the files were indeed on the new drive. The next step was probably a mistake, but the program offered to fromat the old drive with quick format, which I did elect to complete. Then i rebooted the computer and it went through the bios and started to load vista but eventual went to a screen with a blue background with nothing else on the screen. I've rebooted several time but same results. I've been thinking that since the original drive was designated C: , that all the cloned files probably have that in the file addresses and since the new drive was given a designation H: there is some sort of conflict. I'm at a loss at how to proceed.
I did backup the original drive on a Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive before I started the cloning.
rdunnill
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April 26th, 2013 17:00
Try removing the old drive and rebooting.
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April 27th, 2013 06:00
Removed the old drive. Restarted the computer . Same outcome as before with the addition of an error box on the blue background. The error box was for rundll32.exx and stated, " Windows cannot access the specific device, path, or file. you may not have the appropriate permission to access them."
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April 27th, 2013 22:00
You may have to reinstall, but don't reformat and your old Windows installation will be archived as Windows.old. Afterwards, you can import your data into the new install.