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[Carlzilla]

Trying to clone my IDE hdd to a brand new SATA hdd, so im able to remove the IDE and boot from the SATA

Spent about 6 hours today trying to sort it, to no avail.

My win7 disc freezes up at setup is starting after the language selection screen if you boot from the disc
Cloned the IDE as it was, and enabled the SATA drive to be read as ide in the bios, and pretty much every other method i can think of.

Had just about enough at this point in time, and im considering taking the hard drives to work, and putting the stihl saw through them.

please help

Edited by Carlzilla, 11 December 2010 - 08:06 PM.

[pikey7]

if you're cloning your HD, why do you need the win7 disc? It should be a direct copy.

If you're just copying files across, you won't have copied the boot sectors so it won't boot.

If you're upgrading, sounds like the win7 dvd isn't complete or is damaged.

[davidv]

Not sure but i think Norton make an old program that clones drives well.It can fall out with windows and other programs as it takes over the drives.Good luck.

[Youngowner93]

There are a load of free programs and tools out there that can make direct copies of hard disks, just google search it

Edited by Youngowner93, 12 December 2010 - 12:18 PM.

[Ethel]

What he said - checkout the disc manufacturer's sites, most offer free cloning utilities. The Norton programme is "Ghost".

If you're cloning the boot disc, you're likely to have more success with a programme that reboots the PC and does it under DOS.

[Carlzilla]

It seems like my only option of cloning ide to sata is BUYING acronis true image, which i find appauling, as its £40 which kindve brings a new hdd cost up to £100, which isnt funny.

There's many many people who cant quite get the cloning process right, and theres no how-tos online which dont use acronis true image, theres no free trials availible which have the cloning process on, and ive read quite a lot that ghost ends up buggering the os on the ide drive up in the process, and then becomes unbootable. which renders my pc a cabbage pretty much.


So, if anybody knows another way around cloning ide to sata, and installing the sata drivers to the ide before i clone the drive, without having to pay through my arse for a program that i shouldnt have to buy, please do tell me. Would be very much appreciated at this moment in time

[Ethel]

Haven't you checked the manufacturer's site? If you buy a new disc they kinda expect that you'll want to copy your old one to it.

http://www.seagate.c...oads/discwizard

Are you also sure it's not related to the bios or any driver issues?
My dated copy of partition magic works with my sata drives inc. raid array

[Carlzilla]

the ide is an ExcelStor, the new sata is a Hitachi one. the problem is the ide wont have the sata drivers installed, so the sata wont be able to boot as a direct copy of the ide.

[pikey7]

tried cloning it, and then before booting, run a repair installation from the win7 dvd? that should fix any boot sectors.

acronis is always available if you know where to look...

alternatively, you could have done a fresh install and then just copied the files with all the time it's taken so far...

[davidv]

Yes Ethel, Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier.Windows XP home/professional,Windows 2000 Professioal Sp4 or higher.I have an original boxed set if that would do it post me.Ghost is the program that might sort it out.

[Ethel]

I'd have thought if you can boot off the ide drive and read the sata drive then the drivers must be installed on the ide, and would be copied to the new drive if you used a low level copy utility that clones the drive bit for bit.

[minilester]

ive done this a billion times... i use a second pc, and boot off a cd/usb/floppy with hddclone and then just copy the ide to the sata.. boot sectors and all... stick the new drive in the pc that had the ide drive and it worked flawlessly... why are you having so many problems doing this?

[Carlzilla]

Got hold of True image, now after reboot im getting the error message

Acronis AUTOPART

Error: Script file not found.


and then it just boots back into windows normally with no mention of what went wrong.
getting peeved now :@

[WRLondon]

try norton ghost

[WRLondon]

try norton ghost