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Cloning errors in Windows 7

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July 12, 2014 8:40:43 AM

I have a Dell studio 435 that need more hard drive space, I got a dell 1TB drive, they told me it would be simple no new bios needed. I put the old drive in a USB enclosure and used Acronois True Image To clone. seems after the cloning the were a lot of windows system files that did not make, like I could not do updates, not downloads, etc.could not use the orignal windows 7 pro disc for a repiar update, said disc in not compatible, but if you run windows 7 adisor everything on the drive is compatible . Had to go back to old drive, and one know what I can do to get the larger drive cloned? sure hate to do a new install and have to add all me software. thanks for your help

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July 12, 2014 8:49:45 AM

Where is your windows drive?
I think the normal procedure would be to boot into windows and clone the windows drive preferably to the new drive installed in your pc. The process will be faster if direct attached.
The clone utility will lock your os so no files are changed during the clone process. When the clone is complete, install the new larger cloned drive to replace the old drive.
When you next boot, the lock will be released and you should be good to go.

USB attachment for the output, is possible, but slower.
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July 12, 2014 9:05:54 AM

Hi

Did you clone all hard disk in one go or partitions one at a time

You may encounter problems due to old hard drives using 512byte sectors & new hard drives using 4096 byte (4k) sectors (most Advnced Format drives can emulate 512B sectors but are slowed down by translation

Was Acronis an upto date version ?
since Dell do not make hard drives what make was drive?

as WD & Seagate provide a Acronis clone program only working if one of drives is their brand

Personally I would clone existing hard drive & any hidden partitions
(look in Disk management for details)

Then use gparted to expand C: and possibly create a D:
or if C: & D: exist then expand and move D: to end of disk then expand C:
gparted is a partition editor on a linux boot cd image
(designed to look like Partition Magic which Norton / Symatec purchased in 2002 & killed it off)

clonezilla is another well known free program for cloning hard drives

personally I would connect drive inside case of desktop unless I had USB 3.0 tray & ports on PC

If C: & D: exist I would copy contents of D: to new hard drive, then remove partition D: on old hard drive & move end of C: into its space.

Or if PC had been in use for serveral years do a complete re install on new hard drive.
Then add back old drive to make data available

The problem you had with repair install was probably original DVD at 7.0 but installation on hard disk Win 7 with Service pack 1
so a new system repair disk needs to be built on PC with Win 7 with SP1

see instructions
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/create-a-sy...
or
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/system-repair...

or Google 'windows 7 system repair disc'
for details

regards
Mike Barnes
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July 12, 2014 9:12:23 AM

everything Mike Barnes just said. The only other time i have seen the 'not compatible' problem is with UEFI mainboards. If the installation is on a UEFI hard drive make sure you boot the windows 7 CD as UEFI too, not legacy, or windows will complain it isn't a compatible version
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