I have recently had to change my OS hard drive as it was giving warnings of problems (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit). So i went to buy a new drive... unplugged the old drive, installed the new no hassles. Then i plugged in the old drive to copy some data over to the new drive. It would only boot from the old drive? (when trying to boot from the new one i got an error saying bootdrv is missing). So booted up from old drive copied the files across with no hassles and unplugged the old drive. The new drive doesn't see the files. So plug the old drive back in and boot from it and it sees the files on the new drive? what do i have to do to get the files to be recognised by the new drive? Any help would be great. I have also checked that the files are NOT corrupted
New OS Hdd does not read files copied from Old OS
- Thread starter Anno_dom
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- Apr 22, 2009
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When you installed the OS to the new drive, the old drive was still recognized as the boot drive. So the boot sector was either written to the old drive or left intact on the old drive. Hence, the old HDD was the only drive that would boot.
When you "copied" the files from the old HDD to the new HDD, the OS doesn't know they exist. You would have to re-install all those pgms.
What you want to do, is clone the old HDD to the new HDD. But don't do a sector by sector clone. That would copy any bad sectors as well. This is a handy free cloning pgm to use to make the new HDD an exact clone of the old HDD:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/clone-hard-drive.htm
This little tutorial will walk you through the task if you need it:
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/features/disk-clone-guide.htm
If the HDDs are the same size, it should be straight forward. if the new HDD is bigger, you may have to use the edit feature to be sure you don't end up with 2 partitions on the new drive.
When you "copied" the files from the old HDD to the new HDD, the OS doesn't know they exist. You would have to re-install all those pgms.
What you want to do, is clone the old HDD to the new HDD. But don't do a sector by sector clone. That would copy any bad sectors as well. This is a handy free cloning pgm to use to make the new HDD an exact clone of the old HDD:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/clone-hard-drive.htm
This little tutorial will walk you through the task if you need it:
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/features/disk-clone-guide.htm
If the HDDs are the same size, it should be straight forward. if the new HDD is bigger, you may have to use the edit feature to be sure you don't end up with 2 partitions on the new drive.
Thx ClutchC, however the problem has become moot as I removed the old drive and booted off the new drive.... as soon as the startup happened windows gave drive check and then automatically renamed and deleted those files.
There were no programs, only docs, pics and some movies all of which i really wanted to keep. MS killed me
This is just the first time i have encountered an issue like this so i am stumped as to why.
There were no programs, only docs, pics and some movies all of which i really wanted to keep. MS killed me
This is just the first time i have encountered an issue like this so i am stumped as to why.
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