Hard Drive Problems

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

Recently i got a new 2TB hard drive and when i tried to clone my old one to it (I used to Discwizard by seagate) Now my pc will just black screen with both of them plugged in and with the new one, but if i plug my old one if i can turn it on and use it like how it used to be please help! when i was cloning it never used to black screen i could turn it on and let it do its thing now i cant it black screens.

BadAsAl · Jan 11, 2017

So old one works fine still on it's own.
If you have both plugged in and you manually choose to boot from your old one, does it boot?

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

BadAsAl :

Earlier when i first turned it on i was getting a flickering log in page, now when i plug them both in and try to it gives me a black screen

BadAsAl · Jan 11, 2017

With both in, are you able to hit your boot options key (F12 on my PC) and get a list of bootable devices? If you do, are both drives listed there? And what happens at that point when you select your old drive to boot from?

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

BadAsAl :

When i tried to plug both in earlier i whould just go right to a black screen and whould not get a bios or anything

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

None of my pc parts are the problem
My specs are:
GTX 1070
I5 6600
8GB ram
500GB HItatchi drive
and my brand new Seagate Barracuda 2TB that will not work

BadAsAl · Jan 11, 2017

Wow. Ok, can you try the new drive on a different SATA cable, power cable, SATA port, etc?

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

BadAsAl :

I cant try a new cable but i can try a new power cable and slot

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

Ok so i moved to a new port i got into my pc with both plugged in and i got to this pc and it pops up with https://gyazo.com/fbd0a8fa2afea5d860bca026a009ef71

BadAsAl · Jan 11, 2017

Interesting. I am going offline for the night but what happens now if you shut down, unplug the old drive, and try to boot?

SwankyDanky · Jan 11, 2017

I tried that it came up with a black loading circle and did nothing i left it for a bit too

BadAsAl · Jan 12, 2017

Sounds to me like a bad clone. I would start over, delete all the partitions on the new drive, create a single partition on the new drive that uses all the space (be sure to match GPT or MBR format of old drive). Then use Macrium Reflect free edition to clone the old drive. During the cloning process you can resize the main Windows partition to use all available space or you can let it clone and then resize after using a partition manager. I have yet to have a failed Macrium Reflect clone.

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