cloned hard drive wont boot
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to a 280 gb partition labled windows on the new 320 gb hdd. The clone took about 3 hours and there were no errors. I did this using a sata/ide to usb hdd enclosure. I then safely removed the 320 gb hdd, powered of the dell, and swapped the internal hdd(100 gb) with the newly cloned 320 gb hdd. When I powered the dell on I went into bios with f2 and ensured that the internal hdd was set to boot first. After saving and exiting, the newly cloned hard drive would not boot. All I would get is a black screen with a small blinking dash in the left top corner of the screen. After powering off again and switching back the hard drives, I turned the dell on again and booted to windows. I then went into computer,manage,disk management, storage after hooking the 320 gb back up to my enclosure. What I noticed was that the recovery partition on my initial 100gb was active, and windows(C