- Jan 8, 2014
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Hi everyone, I have a friends PC that has two 1TB harddrives in it. One has the OS the other is used for data backups (quickbooks, etc.) He Told me the SMART tests were failing on boot up, so i quickly found that his hard drives are both in poor health and are close to failure. I told him i could clone both hard drives, so he went out and bought two 3TB Western Digital Green Hard drives. I took his PC home and pulled his drive that has windows, connected to my computer using a USB kit, imaged the XP installation using DriveImage XML, which appeared to be successful. I then took the new hard drive, connected it to my computer (USB), and formatted it using Disk management that is built into windows 7. (NTFS, no drive letter assigned, MBR, had to be split into 2 partitions) I then pushed the image i created to a partition on the new hard drive, Put it in his PC and tried to boot. I got a reboot and select proper boot device error. So i booted from my windows XP disc to see if I could repair the installation. No dice. Any Ideas what i did wrong? Is it the hard drive size? Should i be using a 1TB drive?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
- Aadam
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
- Aadam
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