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Cannot copy old hdd to new hdd on hp compaq nx9420 as just get the flashing cursor when boot

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WHich program are you using to try to copy the HDD - and are you trying to replace the original drive or simply remove data to a new larger drive?

It sounds very much as though you have the second drive connected as a USB drive on boot up? if so, its possible that the settings in your BIOS may be trying to boot from the new, empty USB drive rather than your normal one.

Your text "I do not know what a body is" is something of a mystery to me at least - what does it mean?
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more info is needed, explain what you want to do please
normallly, for "copying " a disk to another , you use an imaging tool
best known ones are Acronis, Ghost, and Paragon
i use their free tool : http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/      

fast, and easy to use
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Hi Nucleas,

Well the internal HDD that your laptop has is a SATA drive. What type is your new HDD ? A portable USB HDD or another SATA drive ? And how are you connecting your new HDD to your laptop ?

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Vimal
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We have used ghost old version on floppy and ghost 11 on a cd and acronis. when put new internal sata 500gb hdd in computer just get flashing cursor LH top corner but we can press F11. Note thatHistorically we have never been able to copy hdds with softthink HP software for the recovery partition
The customers old hdd has a bad sector so today we repaired it by doing chkdsk on another computer and also found that he does not have viruses so it is worth keeping his programs so now we can go into windows so we are creating a HP recovery point with tomorrow the idea of copying the hard drive again and pressing F11 and going to recover back to the restore point with the idea of recreating the MBR and bootsector but I am not sure if this will work. So should we use the recovery cds on the new hdd and then press F11 and use the old drive connected by USB. files to recover back to the HP recovery point? Or do you have another idea.? Peter
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The recovery media was made when he bought the computer but he wants the computer to have the up to date software as it was yesterday. So I am not sure if your answer is relevant unless you mean we can copy the up to date OS partition over the one we create when we use the recovery cd and what is a fool proof way of doing that and still have the drive boot to windows?
try paragon, you can copy all partitions, or the disk

fyi - i'm struggling with several HP pc's too, that the F11 recovery system does not work.