I hve a dual boot system that I am trying to swap drives in
System is an Intel motherboard with core 2 duo at 2.00 Ghz and 4 gigs ram.
All drives except the DVD/CD are SATA, and mothervoard can control 4 sata drives.
I ws using a Maxtor 300 gig drive with Windows 2000 that was moved from a smaller drive after being service pack upgraded. To that I added a 500 gig WD drive and created 2 partions. Installed Vista Ultimate OEM on second partition with no problems.
Has been running with very few problems, most of which were cured by restoring to an earlier date.
I am trying to add, or actually replace the current 2 drives with a 1.5 Tb WD drive.
I have tried 6 ways from Sunday to clone the 2 existing drives to the new drive, but with sad results.
I can clone the Maxtor (C drive) with no seeming problem, and boot win 2k from the new drive. But cloning the other drive will not let me boot into Vista. I have tried simply leaving C drive as the boot drive and only cloning the WD 500 to the new drive, but always come up with the boot error.
It comes up with a file or files missing, arghhh...
I have tried several utilities to no avail.
I have used Maxblast 5, which is actually an Acronis version, Acronis true Image Home 2009 (which I got bundled with the new drive) a version of WD's drive utility, downloaded, and Easus Partition Master 3.5 Home Edition.
One or two of the items want to overwrite everything on the new drive, and some will copy as is or proportionally (but not all 3 partitions).
I am thinking now that it would have been easier if I had started with ony Vista on this computer, but want some of the options that I get running windows 2K.
For the record, I had 2K running on the 300 gig drive, then installed Vista to E drive.
I am trying to solve the problem. I can boot 2k from the bew drive but get the error if I try to boot Vista from the boot manager. I even tried things like reassigning drive letters, boot order in BIOS and so on. I am trying to avoid reinstalling Vista so that I don't have to reinstall so amny other programs as well.
Presently I am running Vista from the original 500 gig drive.
It used to be much simpler with one OS and I could clone the old drive to a new bigger drive with no problems.
Any suggestions as to what will do the trick? I cannot simply buy more software, limited funds and such. And the Vista install DVD will only run by booting to it, and does not seem to offer an option to repair.
Oh yes, the Acronis True image will not install but will boot and run from the CD.
My goal is to run 3 partitions on the new 1.5 Tb drive and pull the older drives and save as backups.
Wayne WA2YNE
System is an Intel motherboard with core 2 duo at 2.00 Ghz and 4 gigs ram.
All drives except the DVD/CD are SATA, and mothervoard can control 4 sata drives.
I ws using a Maxtor 300 gig drive with Windows 2000 that was moved from a smaller drive after being service pack upgraded. To that I added a 500 gig WD drive and created 2 partions. Installed Vista Ultimate OEM on second partition with no problems.
Has been running with very few problems, most of which were cured by restoring to an earlier date.
I am trying to add, or actually replace the current 2 drives with a 1.5 Tb WD drive.
I have tried 6 ways from Sunday to clone the 2 existing drives to the new drive, but with sad results.
I can clone the Maxtor (C drive) with no seeming problem, and boot win 2k from the new drive. But cloning the other drive will not let me boot into Vista. I have tried simply leaving C drive as the boot drive and only cloning the WD 500 to the new drive, but always come up with the boot error.
It comes up with a file or files missing, arghhh...
I have tried several utilities to no avail.
I have used Maxblast 5, which is actually an Acronis version, Acronis true Image Home 2009 (which I got bundled with the new drive) a version of WD's drive utility, downloaded, and Easus Partition Master 3.5 Home Edition.
One or two of the items want to overwrite everything on the new drive, and some will copy as is or proportionally (but not all 3 partitions).
I am thinking now that it would have been easier if I had started with ony Vista on this computer, but want some of the options that I get running windows 2K.
For the record, I had 2K running on the 300 gig drive, then installed Vista to E drive.
I am trying to solve the problem. I can boot 2k from the bew drive but get the error if I try to boot Vista from the boot manager. I even tried things like reassigning drive letters, boot order in BIOS and so on. I am trying to avoid reinstalling Vista so that I don't have to reinstall so amny other programs as well.
Presently I am running Vista from the original 500 gig drive.
It used to be much simpler with one OS and I could clone the old drive to a new bigger drive with no problems.
Any suggestions as to what will do the trick? I cannot simply buy more software, limited funds and such. And the Vista install DVD will only run by booting to it, and does not seem to offer an option to repair.
Oh yes, the Acronis True image will not install but will boot and run from the CD.
My goal is to run 3 partitions on the new 1.5 Tb drive and pull the older drives and save as backups.
Wayne WA2YNE