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Computer repeatedly re-booting from new drive after EaseUS disk copy
The old drive is a 160Gb Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS and the new drive is a Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250Gb. Both are SATA. The disk copy said it completed fine. I shut down the computer, removed the old drive, and placed the new drive in the same SATA port 0 as the old drive.
I used the EaseUS disk copy utility from the ultimatebootcd.com CD and now the computer repeatedly re-boots after the initial "Starting Windows" splash screen.
I ran the "Repair my computer" option after booting from the Windows 7 Home Prem. CD and the result was:
Root cause found
Unspecified changes to system configuration might have caused the problem.
Repair action: System files integrity check and repair.
Result: Error code=0x490
I used the EaseUS disk copy utility from the ultimatebootcd.com CD and now the computer repeatedly re-boots after the initial "Starting Windows" splash screen.
I ran the "Repair my computer" option after booting from the Windows 7 Home Prem. CD and the result was:
Root cause found
Unspecified changes to system configuration might have caused the problem.
Repair action: System files integrity check and repair.
Result: Error code=0x490
I want to have a look on the copy source system Windows Disk Management. Is it based on 100MB partition and C: drive?
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noxcho: I'm not at that computer right now - I'll look at it and get back with you. I do know that the original disk was preinstalled by Dell in 2008 (Vostro 220s) with Vista 32-bit and upgraded to Windows 7 Home Prem. 32-bit.
That could be a problem. Dell could put the boot files onto one partition and system files onto another. And your cloning did not copy all.
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I've never used EaseUS Disk Copy before, but their website states:
"Sector by sector copy: Makes physical 1:1 copies (clones) of hard disks and partitions which ensure 100% identity to the original."
There were no Read or Write errors.
Going off memory, there are 3 partitions: a FAT partition, RECOVERY partition, and the Primary partition. Since the new drive is larger, there is also a partition of unallocated space on the new drive.
"Sector by sector copy: Makes physical 1:1 copies (clones) of hard disks and partitions which ensure 100% identity to the original."
There were no Read or Write errors.
Going off memory, there are 3 partitions: a FAT partition, RECOVERY partition, and the Primary partition. Since the new drive is larger, there is also a partition of unallocated space on the new drive.
Then connect this larger drive back to original PC and get the screen shot of Windows Disk Management with both drives connected.
can you run the repair again? i found it needs to be done sometimes more than once..
As nobus said, it may take a few repairs to get it (bearing in mind that certain sectors will be locked for the repair)... The article I posted above advises something like 3 repairs (with a restart in between).
We followed those instructions and it seemed to work... we've never had any further issues!
We followed those instructions and it seemed to work... we've never had any further issues!
When I have an issue like this, I backup my data and reformat and reload the OS. This takes 45 minutes and returns the computer to like new.
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Thanks fo the suggestions.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html