so I bought a new 1T hard drive. a seagate barracuda sata. I followed the disc wizard instructions to clone my hard drive but after I chose the disc to clone etc and it restarted the computer now I just have a blank black screen with a flashing cursor. and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. (let it sit for more than 10 min. and the hdd light never flashes or anything.) and now my old drive will not boot.
seagate's site is a waste of time to ask there. no one posts there.
anyone familiar with their clone disc have anything to share with me? I'd hate to re install windows again. takes way too long.....
My Computer
OS
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
CPU
amd athlon 64 X2 5000+
Motherboard
asus A8M2N-LA
Memory
4 gigs pc2 5300
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
Sound Card
Realtek alc888 high def 8 channel
Monitor(s) Displays
17"samsung syncMaster and 32" LCD panasonic viera tv
Hard Drives
300 gb Hitachi sata 7200rpm
1T seagate Barracuda sata 7200rpm
150 gb WD PATA
250gb WD my passport USB 2.0
PSU
Antec
Other Info
Altec lansing ATP3 3 pc speaker system(these things rock!)
Were both hard drives installed inside the computer? The Acronis that Disk wizzard uses will clone pretty well. I have used it several times without issue. It should not have affected your old hard drive. Which hard drive is set to boot first in your bios? When it said to reboot did you reboot into the new hard drive or the old one. As I recall, the actulal clone process occurs during startup. Use the 1 time boot menu and boot into your new hard drive. See if that helps.
well it never cloned because it was indeed trying to load the new drive first. I was too impatient to check it and I installed windows anyway. lol
my old drive is fine.
My Computer
OS
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
CPU
amd athlon 64 X2 5000+
Motherboard
asus A8M2N-LA
Memory
4 gigs pc2 5300
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
Sound Card
Realtek alc888 high def 8 channel
Monitor(s) Displays
17"samsung syncMaster and 32" LCD panasonic viera tv
Hard Drives
300 gb Hitachi sata 7200rpm
1T seagate Barracuda sata 7200rpm
150 gb WD PATA
250gb WD my passport USB 2.0
PSU
Antec
Other Info
Altec lansing ATP3 3 pc speaker system(these things rock!)
Hope you have it the way you want it. Glad you figured it out. Disk Wizzard usually does a good job at cloning but can take a few minutes depending on the size of the clone. Glad you have things worked out.
Whenever cloning a HDD at 1st boot of the cloned drive it's important to have all other HDD's disconnected...
It's not necessary to uninstall them...simply disconnect the data cables...
Only time i've seen Acronis not do it's job has been user error.
My Computer
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self-Built
OS
Vista Ultimate X64/ Windows 7 Dual-boot
CPU
Q6600
Motherboard
ASUS P5K
Memory
4G OCZ PC2 8500 Platinum
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
Hard Drives
500G Seagate SATA
200G Seagate SATA
100G WD Caviar SATA
80G WD Caviar IDE
