Moving system over to new hard drive

voodooking

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Hey guys,

So I am working on this HP G70 Notebook and the hard drive (C) started to fail so I went out and got a new one real fast before it froze up on me. The install went perfectly. I took the info off the old hard drive and put it on the new one. I Copied the contents of the old one including hidden files and folders. But this won't boot. I get this "No bootable device" error now. What do I do? Thanks

Jim
 
Solution
Just copying from old to new will not work.

Either a fresh install on the new drive, or use one of the many cloning applications.