Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
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The Easus cloning software does a disk to disk clone - partition sizes remain the same and I have to go in afterwards to enlarge the OS partition from the free space remaining.
Your steps 1 and 2...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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No. I am talking about Windows' own, but it just hit me that you have Vista Home Premium, and it doesn't come with that version.
My bad. Vista Ultimate and Business have it, as well as all the Win 7...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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I don't think it's a bad hard drive at all. I think it's an incompatibility with a "too new" hard drive and an older bios/operating system. I'm basing this on the Amazon.com reviews of the drive,...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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Maybe someone out there can figure this out, at this point I am so frustrated I am ready to toss the whole shooting match.
Short version of story - Gateway (ugh) laptop with Vista Home Premium,...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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Sounds like Gateway put the wrong bios file online. No laptop model number provided so no way to double check.
1. double check the OS partition is tagged bootable
2. change the bootable drive...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
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Just in case anybody comes across this thread looking for a solution, in my case I was finally able to boot the cloned drive by following these steps found at this link...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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Actually before finding the solution I tried both Easus and Acronis on two different drives - a 500gb 7200 RPM Hitachi and a 320gb 5400 RPM Western Digital Drive. On each of these drives, at various...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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You're talking about Macrium Reflect? I can give it a try and see.
Oh sorry i missed your other post. The system is Vista not Windows 7, as far as I recall there is no system image backup option...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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Try other cloning software.
Macrium Reflect Free is one that I've used.
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
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Yeah I know how to use it in Win 7 and it's a good solution there. Truthfully I just think the BIOS on the Gateway is too crippled to run the drive, even tho the system is not that old, and the fine...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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The alignment problem wouldn't stop your computer from booting.
All hard drives will work in your laptop, as long as they are SATA.
BTW: Do you happen to have a USB memory stick plugged in, or any...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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Aitrus..
You're not paying attention.
Look at the post above yours. The OP has resolved the problem and from what she had to do, it goes to show you why I prefer using the built in Windows System...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
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Yeah. I have a suggestion.
How about doing it the easy and infallible way...
Put the original hard drive into the laptop and use the Windows System Image in the control panel to make an image onto...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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ah right there are so many freeware or free-of-charge tools out there that I forgot to recommend at least one. HBCD and BootICE both allow you to edit BCD file and pretty much any fdisk/partitioning...
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
Thread created 09-17-2012 by carmen617
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First thing that comes to mind is whether the new HDD has a master boot record or not. I will not assume the cloning software did a good job of that.
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
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If you do the job with the Windows System image, you'll have no problems whatsoever, and certainly not from a bleeding edge hard drive.
Laptop boots to blinking cursor after hard drive clone
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Maybe easy but I wouldn't say this is the quickest way. You're making an image to an external device then restoring an image. It actually takes more than twice as long and you need 3 drives to do...
