Interesting Clone HDD issue

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:46 pm

Ok I've cloned a HDD that was 20Gigs in size to a HDD that is 120Gigs in size pretty much cause the owner (my mother) ran out of space on the computer. The cloning was done with Acronis which did fine cept I've ran into some services not starting up and even though all hardware is showing drivers installed including ethernet adapter I'm not getting a connection. Upon the 5th or so restart doing a few things with it now I'm up against Windows activation for some reason while trying to log into the admin account.

So since I can't get a connection I can't do this online...I really don't want to fool with calling MS at this moment but even still I gotta deal with the services not starting issues.

What is causing this just off anyone's head? I've not yet gone google searching yet but I will depending on the answers I get here.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:40 am

haven't seen this issue. Before running the activation, I'd run a checkdisk /r on it....maybe even repair the MBR. Windows will keep track of the hard drive for a component...there's a mounted volume tag that will change with a new hard drive. BIOS set for PnP ==> Yes?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:44 am

The harddrive is the only thing thats changed? Has this PC had many other hardware changes during its life with this current windows install?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:50 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote: BIOS set for PnP ==> Yes?

No plug n play for OS wasn't on but I turned it on with no change - going to setup to run a chkdsk /r and fixmbr see what that does.

YARDofSTUF wrote:The harddrive is the only thing thats changed? Has this PC had many other hardware changes during its life with this current windows install?

Harddrive only thing that has changed.. 20gig to 120gig and no other changes other than maybe a stick or ram.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:51 pm

No change after the fixmbr and the chkdsk /r run... going to try a repair install. Right now it's the firewall service not kicking in which I'm sure has some effect on having no connection.. even one of the avast services isn't running and I installed it AFTER the cloning.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:15 pm

I'd put the old hard drive back in....flip PnP OS back on in the BIOS....run a checkdisk on the old hard drive...after 2 reboots....go for the clone again. Something wonky in the clone due to <who knows>...but I'd want to start from scratch rather than try to repair a possibly bad image. Never know what other quirks will come up down the road.
Use the latest cloning software from Seagate or WD's site?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:35 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I'd put the old hard drive back in....flip PnP OS back on in the BIOS....run a checkdisk on the old hard drive...after 2 reboots....go for the clone again. Something wonky in the clone due to <who knows>...but I'd want to start from scratch rather than try to repair a possibly bad image. Never know what other quirks will come up down the road.
Use the latest cloning software from Seagate or WD's site?

If the repair doesn't work I'll certainly do the clone again - sucky thing is it takes 8 hours cause I think the old drive is getting ready to tank..it's really making some nice high pitched noises when I slaved it to check some stuff. I really really want to avoid doing a reload from scratch cause of what she has on it.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:44 pm

Ack.....a noisy clone that takes hours...yeah..that's a nailbiter.
Whelp...seeing as the old drive is THAT close to jumping off the cliff....I suppose nurse the new one along as best you can. Give it a good checkdisk /r, a defrag, an SFC...and hope for the best.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:51 pm

Well did the repair and so far all is good, services crank up, internet working and so on. Ran into a .NET popup with a error but killed a few things on startup for now and will run windows updates as there are about 53 that I need to install including IE8. After I get those installed I'll tackle the .NET issues which shouldn't be hard and do a few cleanup tasks as you've mentioned which are defrag and so on.