Changing Hard Drives

[dimz]

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

 

[Petey7]

During the BIOS post splash screen, tap F8. This will bring you to the system recovery environment. Choose "Repair Your Computer".

 

[dimz]

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.

 

[Petey7]

Thats is because some files were corrupted in the cloning process. Namely the master boot record. No, none of your files will be deleted.

 

[dimz]

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

 

[Petey7]

With the new hard disk in.

 

[dimz]

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.

 

[Shadowjk]

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

Many Thanks,
Josh

 

[dimz]

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

 

[dimz]

This is what my "My Computer" looks like. Its in the file attached below

 

[Shadowjk]

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

What about Hidden Files and Folders?

Just to check

In Windows explorer go to Organize and click on Folder and search options

then click the View Tab and Click on Show hidden Files and folders then click apply and OK

Hope This Helps,
Josh

 

[dimz]

i did that and its exactly the same