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Cloned drive not starting
I used a software called Drive Cloner Rx to clone my old hard drive to a new SSD drive. When I switched the cables to make the cloned drive the main drive, it didn't seem to pick it up as the new drive. What am I doing wrong?
Do you get some error message or does it just not see the drive?
What operating system?
Could be a number of things.
Did you clone the drive or just a partition to the new drive?
Were both drives SSD or just the destination?
Is Drive Cloner compatible with SSDs? I presume it is but have you checked the documentation.
If you attach this drive as a slave to another computer can you view the contents of the drive there? This will check that the contents were copied across correctly to the drive.
Did you clone the drive or just a partition to the new drive?
Were both drives SSD or just the destination?
Is Drive Cloner compatible with SSDs? I presume it is but have you checked the documentation.
If you attach this drive as a slave to another computer can you view the contents of the drive there? This will check that the contents were copied across correctly to the drive.
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I cloned just the partition to the SSD. I don't see why an SSD or spinning drive would really make a difference.
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iif that is correct, check if there is a bios update available - i had a system that would not boot from a cloned drive - that was booting fine on other systems