WD Hard drive not booting...yet...

[sking]

I have 2 hard disks in my system now. I used a utility called Mini Tool Partition Wizard to copy my 80GB disk onto a 320GB WD Caviar. I have modified the bootloader with the handy dandy easybcd program. Now when I boot my machine there are 2 choices for a Windows7 operating system. With the new one all I get is a black screen. What does this mean? I can see all the files copied on the drive. The Mini Tool created a drive D: (System reserved) and it made the copy of drive C: onto drive E. Why does it create this separate system reserved drive? I assume those files are located on the 320GB hd. Does booting the machine need to access that?


Thanks for the help.

 

[sking]

I downloaded this iso file and payed the 10.95. What a ripoff. I burned it to a disk. I have unplugged both of my drives. My machine does not recognize the disk in the CD rom as a bootable disk. What an exercise in futility....What do I do now? Why doesn't my machine recognize the cd rom?

 

[fantastik250]

They have a tech support that can help you with the system repair.

http://systemdiscs.com/Home/Features

I am assuming you got it from there. Click on tech support at the bottom of that page.

 

[rdc85]

did u setup BIOS to set to boot from DVD, some mobo need to press a key to boot from dvd. If it still cannot detected try in other computer u may had bad optic drive. If it not detected in other than it's a scam.

When u use wizard to clone did u clone the system partition and os partition or only the os partition?

If u still done nothing to the old hdd u can try to restart the process again. Format the WD, re-clone again using wizard or use my step creating backup image in external hdd and boot able acronis disk.

If u had deleted the old HDD than no way to help without windows installation disk (u don't need genuine one because u will replace it with your own later). I'm do not trust windows restore and backup (It had fail me lot's of times, so I chose third parties one)

If u can DL/get from friend win installation disk There a way but included couple of long step. U will need External HDD or flash disk big enough to contain the image.

So u install win trial in 80gig, install acronis, backup the old os from WD to External hdd, create boot able disk, restore it to 80Gb, format the wd. restart cloning process to WD.

 

[sking]

Yes, I set the bios to boot from dvd. My computer is screwed up now. It says my copy of windows 7 is not genuine. Is that a whole other issue?

When I try to boot from the Windows 7 operating system on the new big drive, I can see the drivers going by and it always stops at vdrvroot.sys Either this is corrupt or it can't load the file coming after it. Am I right?

I don't think that Acronis asks for which partition to clone, you just pick the whole drive as the source and select the destination.

Yes, I downloaded this disk from http://systemdiscs.com/Home/Features
What a waste of money. Maybe I'll get a refund. I followed their instructions exactly and I even downloaded the Imgburn program and burned it to disk with this program. It successfully completed the thing. I get to a screen in the bootup that says to put the bootable media into the disk drive and press a key. I do this and it just keeps repeating its message.

What a hassle. I really wanted to fix this myself.

I was able to run the system recovery from my C: drive. I tried to run the start

 

[fantastik250]

Sorry about your issue. It's fairly difficult if I was in your position. Yea, it's better to get your money back if it didn't work.

 

[jitpublisher]

I don't have a Windows 7 disk...if I did I wouldn't be sitting here trying to clone my old disk.

I tried to boot from the WD and it tries to start Windows. I can see the white text "Starting Windows" but those little icons whirling around never appear and it just hangs there. The clone should be fine. There is another partition sitting on the drive call D: which is system reserved 61MB. What is that? Why is it there?

I used the Acronis program which everyone thinks is so great and it will make a bootable disk. Well.... guess again... This program just creates a mess. I followed their freaking instructions for cloning and this is what I"m left with.

I used a program called EasyBCD to edit the booloader and this is what it says:

There are a total of 2 entries listed in the bootloader.

Default: Microsoft Windows 7
Timeout: 30 seconds
EasyBCD Boot Device: D:\

Entry #1
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe

Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows 7
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: E:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe

Acronis works. You created this mess the first time to tried to copy your drive and did not do it correctly. If you are using a legal copy of Windows 7 you really should have the install disk, right?

 

[sking]

That's wrong addict. I bought my PC from a shop where it was just preinstalled and I wasn't given a disk.

Anyways, the problem is now solved. There was never anything i did wrong with the creation of the iso disks. The PROBLEM turned out to be that my CDROM drive can't read DVDs... Solution...Installed new CD ROM drive and I finally got the message "press any key to boot from CD" message. This was never displayed before.

Thanks for all the help though.

 

[jitpublisher]

That's wrong addict. I bought my PC from a shop where it was just preinstalled and I wasn't given a disk.

Anyways, the problem is now solved. There was never anything i did wrong with the creation of the iso disks. The PROBLEM turned out to be that my CDROM drive can't read DVDs... Solution...Installed new CD ROM drive and I finally got the message "press any key to boot from CD" message. This was never displayed before.

Thanks for all the help though.

Okay, well, glad you got it working.