Drive Cloning Issues.

[Cribbs]

I just bought a new pc, so I want to take the ssd from my old one and move it to my new one, my old pc has a 500gb samsung 840 and a 3tb seagate hdd, I have already removed all data from the 3tb drive and have cloned the ssd to the hdd, however when I go into the BIOS to change the boot order, when I try to boot to the 3tb drive it says it can't boot to it.
Also, the 3tb hdd since cloning has turned into the same size as the ssd, is this normal, is there any way to clone all data including the OS to the Hdd without compromising the size of it, also it seems the cloned drive has about 7gb less data written to it.
All help appreciated.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Windows will only boot on the same computer it was installed on, you can't move the drive to a different system and expect it to boot successfully. The fact that you've cloned the drive makes no difference, it still won't boot into Windows on a different system.

You have to install Windows from scratch using an installation disc when you move an OS hard drive to different hardware, so you'll need to buy a copy of Windows to accomplish that.

 

[Cribbs]

Windows will only boot on the same computer it was installed on, you can't move the drive to a different system and expect it to boot successfully. The fact that you've cloned the drive makes no difference, it still won't boot into Windows on a different system.

You have to install Windows from scratch using an installation disc when you move an OS hard drive to different hardware, so you'll need to buy a copy of Windows to accomplish that.

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Ok, well then how how do a reverse the clone per-say? I can't simply delete the files on the drive because after I cloned the drive it says it's now the size of the ssd.