cloned hybrid seagate 1TB is not recognized in D830 Dell laptop

babnab · Mar 30, 2017

Used macurium. put destination disk in Insignia enclosure. created rescue disk. cloned. took about 2hrs. removed source disk completely and installed new drive in hdd slot. no hdd detected.
went into bios and made hdd #1. still the same
please help

RolandJS · Mar 31, 2017

My educated guess is that the target HD's boot partition needs to be made Active (and Windows Disk Management will probably report also Boot). I'm suspecting the OS partition is already set as Primary and System.

babnab · Mar 31, 2017

RolandJS :

babnab · Mar 31, 2017

I cloned the disk per instructions. The rescue did not find the drive in the hdd slot.
i went int disk management and made the largest partition active. How can i make this cloned disk bootable?

alceryes · Apr 1, 2017

Clone the drive (I would do it again if you've already tried messing with the partitions on the cloned drive)
Put just the new drive in laptop
Boot off Windows disc (the one for your OS)
Follow instruction for 'troubleshooting' or 'repairing startup' or 'repair boot' (will vary depending on your OS)
Should take 10 seconds or less to repair
Boot off new drive

babnab · Apr 1, 2017

alceryes :

babnab · Apr 1, 2017

computer came pre loaded.
how do i make a startup disk?

alceryes · Apr 1, 2017

You don't have to use the one specifically for your system, just the same OS. If you are running Windows 10 x64 repair it with a Windows 10 x64 disc. Microsoft has a media creation tool you can use to download an ISO that will work for the purposes of repairing the boot.

babnab · Apr 1, 2017

alceryes :

babnab · Apr 1, 2017

So what I need to in my case is to download a "media creation tool" from Microsoft that i can put in the disk drive and it will boot up on start up and allow me to make my new hdd functional. I have Windows7 x32

alceryes · Apr 1, 2017

No, the media creation tool is for Windows 10.
You'll need to find a Windows 7 x86 (32 bit) disc to fix your boot.

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