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This should have been a fairly simple image transfer to a new hard drive but HP has to make everything extremely complicated.
The HDD in a friends laptop was failing so I did a swap with a new one. Beforehand I did a disk image and backup to make things easier since this was a HP. Pulled the old HDD out and put the new one with the disk image in. Now it says its missing drivers. Shouldn't all the drivers transferred with the disk image?
I've read the stickies and done what's been asked to no avail.
I've tried installing the Raid/SATA drivers with what I think is the right one but the drive is not being seen. Without the Win7 disk it says no bootable device.

I still have the complete drive I took out and it is somewhat usable to take things off of should I need it.

HP Pavilion g4-1117dx Notebook
Windows 7 Home Premium
2.5GHz/1.9GHz VISION A4 Technology from AMD with AMD Dual-Core A4-3300M Accelerated Processor
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These are all the drivers HP has for that laptop.
I see no RAID, but you don't have a RAID.

I'm also confused on why there is no chip set driver.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5118773#N7610


They have a 2 disc recovery kit.


I just did a clean install, on a new computer, and after it did the initial file copy it asked for drivers for my DVD.

Not a Chance it had no drivers, it just copied the DVD for 5 minutes.
Start the install again, and the install went as normal.

Unless you are having fun, I'd look into the recovery disks, no guarantee though
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I should have worked, but I don't know what Image program you used.

You still have the old drive, so I would go to the HD manufacturers sight, and down load there cloning program.

It is specifically made for replacing hard drives, or it will be a free version of Acronis, if it is Western Digital.

I have cloned close to 100 times and it always worked for me.
The only problem with cloning an old drive, you are transferring all the viruses and malware.
Don't say there are none, because that is impossible, in this day and age, unless it is a brand new install, or it never went on the internet.

 
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I used the disk image program within windows 7.
The original HDD is Samsung and the replacement is WD so I'm not sure which to use. Acronis won't work with the Samsung.

The old HDD was reformatted back to factory state using recovery tools so there shouldn't have been any viruses left on it. Its not been online since.
 
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You are only reading the old drive, and when you start the clone program, it runs from the CD/DVD.

If you want to maybe fix the drive, or at least revive the data, Spinrite is the only real program for that.

It can actually fix head alignment problems, which old drive suffer from.

Money back guarantee, and lifetime upgrades.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm


Just a funny.
When you buy a copy of Spinrite, a speaker in Steve Gibsons office says Yaba Daba Do
 
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I don't think I'm understanding.
When I did the disk image I had the old drive in the laptop, did disk image and backup, when asked where to do the disk image I directed it to the new drive attached by usb in external case. I still don't understand why everything, drivers included, did not transfer.
The old drive still works when I put it in the laptop bay but not if I attach by the external case.
 
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For the drive to boot the computer from the external USB case, the BIOS has to support it.

If it supports it, you have to go into the BIOS, and set it to boot from USB.

Most Windows programs like Defrag and image, are a poor substitute for the real programs.
I have never use windows image program, but I assume it is as their other utilities.
You know, like Internet Explorer.
 
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OK I only have the 2 laptop hard drives and imaging to the new one doesn't appear to work. Can the old drive be cloned ( using a cloning software not disk imaging) to a folder on MY laptop and then be transferred to the new drive?
 
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Cloning and Imaging are basically the same thing.
Imaging, is newer, and has more options, so you can copy to a file.

Cloning is a simple program with no bells and whistles, that just copies one drive to another.
My definition.


I have been using Clone programs that come with the drive, for probably 28 years.

Imaging Programs came out 10, or 15 years ago, and are basically a super clones.

So, if you want to copy to file, I think you need a full version Imaging program. Probably not Windows.
 
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No.
At this point I would clean install windows, then connect the USB drive and reinstall. all your Data.

This can be done in a couple of hours.
How much time have you spent on this so far?


The RAID driver message must be generic, as you have No RAID.

It must be the USB driver missing as the internal drive should work, or Acronis should reassess what their business is.

I have never been asked for a driver, when using a clone program, but I have never done it from USB.
 
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So far I've spent over a week on this thing. The first time I did it I did a clean install and it asked for the drivers, after searching and not finding what it wanted I attempted to do the disk image from the original drive. It still wants drivers. Doing another clean install via bootable usb to see if that works.
 
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These are all the drivers HP has for that laptop.
I see no RAID, but you don't have a RAID.

I'm also confused on why there is no chip set driver.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5118773#N7610


They have a 2 disc recovery kit.


I just did a clean install, on a new computer, and after it did the initial file copy it asked for drivers for my DVD.

Not a Chance it had no drivers, it just copied the DVD for 5 minutes.
Start the install again, and the install went as normal.

Unless you are having fun, I'd look into the recovery disks, no guarantee though
 
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I'm about to toss it in the pond with the fishes. No go on the 2nd clean install, via usb or disk. Never have I had so much trouble getting windows on a hard disk. I'm going to try making another disk and see if that is the problem. If not I'll be ordering those recovery disks.
 
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Luckily the owner of the laptop bought it from Best Buy and THEY had the forethought to make the recovery disks. Doing the recovery now and it sees the new HDD. Things are looking up :)

I think I'll make a set for my laptop and desktop since I haven't done so. I guess I should also perform backups on both since I haven't done so in a couple years. Things are getting more and more complicated without them.
 
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The recovery disks worked perfectly and now the laptop has a new working HDD. I'm allowing Windows to do the update but if I remember right there were some that caused issues. Do you know which ones I should avoid installing?
 
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