new hard drive with cloned content will not boot

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Hello,

This is an ASUS U56E about which I posted before when Windows 7 Pro would not boot. At a computer repair place the 'old' hard drive was cloned onto a new hard drive which I had purchased (not the same size but both SATA). My hope was to recover data and possibly be able to boot with the new hard drive.

I can find and open (using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit) most if not all of the data on the new hard drive (it is partitioned as was the original) when it is put in an enclosure and read with another computer. However, when the new hard drive is put back in the ASUS I hear a series of clicking sounds, pause, repeat, stop, and then I see an ASUS screen but without the place for me to enter a passcode-I do not get to a Windows screen.

While I can find the data using another computer, there are a few folders that have long garbled names and that cannot be read (or maybe I need to wait longer).

My goal is to take the data and put it onto my new computer. I would like to be able to use this new hard drive either in the ASUS or as a backup.

Any advice on how to achieve either objective would be appreciated.

Thanks again,
Bill
 
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If by installer disk you mean Windows 7 disks then the answer is 'no.' I bought the machine from Best Buy (gag) and have Geek Squad disks which I think are probably not good. I say this because I tried using them before I gave up on the old HD and I could not read them. I cannot find an activation email. The CD/DVD reader is noisy and I think unreliable.
 
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The critical thing that you need to repair most stuff is an installer disk -- unfortunately Microsoft removed them from the Internet a while back. You can take a look on EBay for one -- just be sure that it is a full installation disk for your version, you don't need a key just the media. You can create a boot USB stick once you have a disk using the free program RUFUS if your optical drive is a problem.

Since you had some work done on it, the place that cloned the drive for you should have an installer disk to fix the bootmanager.

In the meantime, you can start your computer from a Linux Live USB stick with THIS free tool. It will automatically download and make the stick (I usually use Mint 17 32 bit) and that will allow you to access data on your HDD.
 
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Thanks for your answer which I have just now seen. I have been attempting to open, read, and move files cloned onto the new SATA HD (in an enclosure) to my new Lenovo Thinkpad but I now get error messages when attempting to do even that. Not sure why I could have opened the same files before with a different computer and I have temporarily at least put aside the prospect of re-using the ASUS. The computer shop that did the cloning wants more money to try to rescue some of the files and that is not going to happen.

My Lenovo is running Windows 7 Pro (64bit) which is the same as the ASUS. I guess I am in the market for do-it yourself file recovery software.
 
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