Changing Hard Drives

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  1. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit
       #1

    Changing Hard Drives


    Basically my problem is that when i installed windows 7 i installed it onto a 150gb hard drive. I soon realised that this was not large enough for my needs and was begining to run incredibly slowly. So i decided to upgrade to a Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard disk. I wanted to copy all of my file over to the new disk and keep the OS, i was told that cloning was the easiest way to do it, so i cloned my old disk. However, when i took out my old disk and booted up the computer i got the error message "NTDLR is missing". Please Help me
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  2. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #2

    During the BIOS post splash screen, tap F8. This will bring you to the system recovery environment. Choose "Repair Your Computer".
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  3. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    will that get rid of any of my files. Another thing i forgot was the weird thing is when i put back my old hard disk the error message goes away.
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  4. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #4

    Thats is because some files were corrupted in the cloning process. Namely the master boot record. No, none of your files will be deleted.
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  5. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    I know im beggining to sound a bit like i worry too much but when i choose repair my computer is it with the hard disk in or the old one or both
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  6. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #6

    With the new hard disk in.
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  7. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    when i boot up my computer with the new hard disk in it pops up with the normal motherboard load screen and options and then straight after that says NTDLR is missing. so i tried it with my old hard drive in anyway and i can only repair that one. I have another hard drive as well that is running windows xp. Would cloning the hard drive again perhaps fix my problem.
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  8. Posts : 2,298
    Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 ; Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
       #8

    That could make your Problem Worse, How did you clone your HDD?

    Many Thanks,
    Josh
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  9. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    i just cloned it using seagate disc wizard and followed instructions. When i look at the files on the hard disk it has all the same ones as the old hard disk
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  10. Posts : 26
    Windows 7 Professional 32bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    This is what my "My Computer" looks like. Its in the file attached below
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Changing Hard Drives-my-compute.jpg  
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